Equatorial Guinea connectivity disruption lasted over 10 days

Equatorial Guinea experienced a significant, prolonged degradation in internet connectivity beginning on July 14. The disruption, which lasted for more than 10 days, primarily affected the network’s control plane visibility. Connectivity was observed returning to normal levels by July 25.

Technical Details

The disruption began at approximately 18:35 UTC on July 14 and persisted until 00:30 UTC on July 25, a duration of 10.2 days. The event recorded a severity score of 36,888. The primary affected metric was the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal, which measures the control plane visibility and routing stability of a country’s internet prefixes. A drop in this signal indicates a reduction in the number of network routes being globally advertised.

Other network health indicators showed concurrent declines. The ping-slash24 signal, which measures ICMP reachability across IPv4 address blocks, recorded a 5% drop from its peak. The gtr-norm signal, a normalized measure of internet traffic volume, showed a more substantial 21% decline from its observed peak during the period.

The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Network connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation period.