Somalia Experiences BGP Control Plane Disruption

Somalia’s internet connectivity experienced a disruption on Wednesday, July 16, 2026, centered on its network control plane. The event lasted approximately one and a half hours, beginning at 22:05 UTC and concluding by 23:35 UTC.

Technical Details

The disruption registered a severity score of 92. The primary affected metric was the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal, which measures the visibility of network prefixes in the global routing table. The BGP median signal recorded a drop of 3% from its peak. Other network health indicators, including active probing for IPv4 reachability and backscatter traffic measurements, showed lesser concurrent deviations.

The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Network conditions were reported as stable following the event’s conclusion.