Niger experienced a brief but notable disruption to its internet routing infrastructure on Thursday, July 10, 2026. The event, which lasted approximately 35 minutes, was characterized by a degradation in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane, a key mechanism for global internet routing.
Technical Details
The disruption occurred between 09:05 and 09:40 UTC. The primary affected metric was the BGP signal, which recorded a severity score of 36. The BGP signal measures the stability and visibility of routing announcements for a country’s IP address prefixes on the global internet. A concurrent, though less severe, drop of 13% was observed in the ping-slash24 signal, which measures ICMP reachability across active IPv4 address blocks. The merit-nt signal, a proxy for aggregate connectivity derived from backscatter traffic, also registered a complete, temporary drop to zero during the event.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity and routing were reported restored by 09:40 UTC.
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