Niger experienced a disruption to its internet control plane on Thursday, August 27, 2026. The event, which lasted approximately three hours, primarily affected the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal. The disruption began at 13:30 UTC and concluded by 16:30 UTC.
Technical Details
The disruption registered a severity score of 2,746. The BGP signal, which measures the visibility of network prefixes in the global routing table, recorded two distinct periods of degradation. The first period, from 13:30 to 14:20 UTC, scored 884. A second, more significant period followed from 14:35 to 16:30 UTC, scoring 1,862. The BGP measurement points showed an 18% drop from its peak value during the observation window.
Other internet measurement signals showed varying degrees of impact. The ping-slash24 signal, which measures ICMP reachability across IPv4 network blocks, recorded a 25% drop from its peak. The merit-nt signal, a proxy for aggregate connectivity, showed an 89% drop from its peak. The cause has not been publicly attributed.
The disruption was resolved by the end of the observation period.
About the Author
