The Democratic Republic of the Congo experienced a brief disruption to its internet routing infrastructure on Tuesday morning. The event, affecting the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), lasted approximately 25 minutes, starting at 03:55 UTC.
Technical Details
The disruption was recorded with a severity score of 27. The primary affected signal was BGP, which measures the control plane visibility and stability of advertised network prefixes. During the event, the median BGP visibility dropped by approximately 1% from its observed peak. Other network health indicators, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and traffic volume forecasts, showed no significant concurrent degradation.
The cause has not been publicly attributed. No related reports of outages or infrastructure damage were identified in public news sources in the week preceding the event.
Routing connectivity was restored by 04:20 UTC.
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