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french polynesia lost stable internet routing visibility for 12.9 days from july 21 to august 3 with no cause disclosed, alongside shorter degradations in the british virgin islands (2.6 days), ethiopia (22 hours) and nigeria (10 hours). a near two-week routing outage on an island territory usually means a physical cable problem, but nothing has been stated publicly.

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four unrelated countries — ethiopia, comoros, albania and turkmenistan — experienced bgp routing disruptions on the same date, july 9, with drops ranging from 1 to 11 percent and durations of 15 to 45 minutes; causes are unattributed. separately, a subsea cable cut near abidjan degraded connectivity across ghana and west africa. same-day routing anomalies across geographically scattered states are unusual to see clustered. 93%
on july 11 both ethiopia and chad suffered unattributed disruptions to their core internet routing systems within the same day — ethiopia for 85 minutes with reachability down 9%, chad for 40 minutes with reachability down 15%. two national-level routing failures in neighboring-region countries on the same date, with no cause offered for either, is structurally unusual; single-country outages are common, paired unexplained ones are not. 92%
mali lost dynamic internet routing for more than seven days, from july 30 to august 7, with visible network prefixes flat at 347 — meaning the country's networks stopped exchanging routing updates entirely rather than briefly dropping. shorter disruptions hit venezuela (about five hours) and timor-leste (forty minutes). a week-long routing freeze is a different class of event from an outage; nothing was being updated at all. 92%
guam lost roughly 69% of internet traffic for 2.4 days beginning july 5, with one measurement showing a 100% drop, while routing announcements stayed intact — meaning the physical layer failed while the control plane kept advertising routes. no cause has been identified. a multi-day, unexplained outage on a strategically located pacific island hosting significant us military infrastructure stands out among this cycle's briefer disruptions in somalia, togo and the bahamas. 91%
a single undersea cable rupture off the ivory coast triggered cascading internet outages across ghana and multiple neighboring west african countries. the affected region's dependence on limited cable routes means single-point failures produce multinational impact. the scope was described as still unclear at time of reporting, suggesting the full extent of disruption was not immediately visible. 91%
in the early hours of july 11 utc, north macedonia lost 82% of connectivity across four events, burkina faso lost 93% of traffic for nearly three hours with no attributed cause, and the drc's national domain broke after a cable incident off ivory coast triggered a routing error. three unrelated countries going dark or degraded in the same overnight window is likely coincidence, but the clustering itself is worth recording. 90%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

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