Congo experienced a brief but notable disruption to its internet routing control plane in the early hours of August 29, 2026. The event lasted approximately 15 minutes, centered around 00:45 UTC, and was isolated to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal.
Technical Details
The disruption recorded a severity score of 16. The affected bgp.median signal, which measures the control plane visibility and stability of advertised network prefixes, showed a measurable deviation during the event window. Other key connectivity metrics, including active probing for IPv4 reachability (ping-slash24) and traffic volume forecasts (gtr.sarima), remained within normal ranges, indicating the data plane was largely unaffected.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Network conditions were reported as stable following the brief event.
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