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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.

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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. 94%
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%
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. 92%
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. 92%
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. 90%
four undersea telecom cables — wacs, mainone, south atlantic 3, and ace — were reported damaged simultaneously, degrading connectivity across at least eight african countries, with repair estimates running weeks to months. simultaneous failure of multiple independent cables on the same coast is unusual and leaves a large region leaning on limited backup capacity. it lands the same week google opened a new transatlantic cable hub in bermuda and a wave-powered floating datacenter prototype was deployed off washington. 88%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

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