Somalia Experiences Brief BGP Disruption on July 15

Somalia experienced a brief disruption to its internet control plane on Tuesday, July 15, 2026. The event, which lasted approximately one hour, was characterized by a degradation in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signal, a key mechanism for routing traffic across the global internet.

Technical Details

The disruption was observed between 19:25 and 20:30 UTC. The primary affected metric was the BGP median signal, which registered a severity score of 100. The BGP signal measures the control plane visibility of a country’s internet prefixes; a drop indicates a reduction in the number of network routes being advertised to the global routing table.

Concurrently, other connectivity metrics showed more modest declines. The ping-slash24 signal, which measures ICMP reachability across IPv4 address blocks, recorded a 13% drop from its peak. The merit-nt signal, a proxy for aggregate connectivity based on backscatter measurements, fell by 58% from its peak.

Reported Cause

The cause of the disruption has not been publicly attributed.

Connectivity was reported restored by the end of the observation window.