Ethiopia Experiences BGP Control Plane Disruption

Ethiopia’s internet connectivity registered a control plane disruption on Saturday, August 15, 2026. The event, which affected the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), lasted approximately one hour and ten minutes, starting at 19:20 UTC. The disruption was observed through a degradation in the BGP signal, which recorded a severity score of 387.

Technical Details

The primary affected metric was the BGP control plane signal, which measures the global visibility of network routing prefixes. The signal’s median value dropped by 6% from its peak during the observation period. Other network health indicators, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and backscatter traffic measurements, showed minor concurrent fluctuations but did not register significant outages. The cause has not been publicly attributed.

The disruption was reported resolved by 20:30 UTC.