Somalia experienced a disruption to its internet connectivity early Tuesday, July 8, characterized by a significant degradation in its Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) control plane. The event began at 00:40 UTC and lasted approximately one hour and twenty-five minutes, with a peak severity score of 153 recorded for the BGP signal.
Technical Details
The primary disruption was observed in the BGP signal, which measures the visibility of a country’s IP address prefixes across the global internet routing table. The signal recorded a severity score of 153 across two distinct periods. The first, a 15-minute period starting at 00:40 UTC, scored 31. A second, more significant period began at 01:05 UTC and lasted for one hour, scoring 122.
Concurrent degradations were observed in other key connectivity metrics. The ping-slash24 signal, which measures ICMP reachability across active IPv4 network blocks, showed a 12% drop from its peak. The gtr-norm signal, a normalized measure of internet traffic volume, recorded a more substantial 78% drop from its observed peak during the event window.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored by 02:05 UTC.
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