South Sudan Experiences BGP Disruption Affecting Routing Visibility

South Sudan experienced a disruption in internet routing visibility on Friday, August 7, 2026. The event, affecting the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), lasted for approximately two and a half hours. The disruption began at 10:05 UTC and concluded at 12:30 UTC.

Technical Details

The disruption registered a severity score of 230, with the most significant impact occurring between 10:45 and 12:30 UTC. The BGP signal measures the control plane visibility of network prefixes, indicating a reduction in the number of routes advertised from the country. Other key connectivity metrics, including active probing reachability (ping-slash24) and backscatter traffic measurements (merit-nt), showed no significant concurrent degradation.

The cause has not been publicly attributed.

Routing visibility was reported restored by the end of the observation period.