Somalia Experienced BGP Control Plane Disruption on July 20

Somalia experienced a disruption to its Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane on July 20, 2026. The event began at 22:50 UTC and lasted for approximately one hour. The disruption registered a severity score of 184, primarily affecting the BGP signal.

Technical Details

The BGP signal, which measures the visibility of network routing prefixes on the global internet, recorded a drop in its median value during the event. The signal’s value fell by approximately 3% from its observed peak. Other network health indicators, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and backscatter traffic measurements, showed concurrent but less severe deviations from their typical baselines during the same observation window.

The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Network conditions were reported as restored following the one-hour event.