Active Incident
Internet outage in Egypt
Egypt · April 28, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Egypt. 1 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.
Evidence
26%
Anomaly Rate
1
Measurements
65%
Confidence
What This Means
26% of tests showed anomalies, above the typical 1-3% baseline. This suggests potential network interference.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceioda + censoredplanet
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score65% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeApril 28, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (2)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis1 record
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Bani Suwayf"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.26
Apr 28, 2026
View source →Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research1 record
http-blocking-timeout
"HTTPS blocking (timeout): 5/10 probes blocked (50.0%) for protonvpn.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.50
Apr 28, 2026
View source →Affected Services (1)
ProtonVPN
Blocked Domains (1)
Click any domain to view raw OONI measurements
What we cannot say
- Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- Intent — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- Which networks — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- The mechanism — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, an HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- A confirmed duration — we report the observation window, not a verified start/stop of any block.
- Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in Egypt [EG-2026-0167]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/EG-2026-0167