South Sudan experienced a disruption to its internet connectivity on Tuesday, primarily affecting the network control plane. The event began at approximately 05:30 UTC and lasted for three hours, concluding around 08:30 UTC.
Technical Details
The disruption registered a severity score of 319. The primary affected metric was the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal, which measures the visibility of network prefixes in the global routing table. The BGP median prefix count dropped by approximately 2% from its peak during the observation window. Other network health indicators, including active probing for reachability and backscatter traffic measurements, showed minimal deviation from baseline levels.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Network conditions were reported as stable at the conclusion of the observation period.
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