South Sudan experienced a disruption to its internet routing infrastructure in the early hours of Tuesday, September 2. The event, which affected the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), lasted for approximately one hour and fifteen minutes, beginning at 01:30 UTC.
Technical Details
The disruption was recorded with a severity score of 133. The primary impact was on the BGP signal, which measures the control plane visibility of network prefixes. During the event, the median BGP visibility metric dropped by approximately 2% from its peak. Other network health indicators, including ICMP reachability across IPv4 prefixes, showed minor fluctuations but no significant concurrent outage.
The cause has not been publicly attributed.
Connectivity was reported restored by 02:45 UTC.
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