Active Incident
Internet outage in Egypt
Egypt · March 23, 2026 · 21 hours
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Egypt. 4 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.
Evidence
25%
Anomaly Rate
4
Measurements
67%
Confidence
What This Means
25% 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 Score67% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMarch 23, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (10)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis4 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Bani Suwayf"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.21
Mar 23, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Bani Suwayf"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.25
Mar 23, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Asyut"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.26
Mar 23, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Asyut"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.26
Mar 23, 2026
View source →Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research6 records
http-blocking-timeout
"HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for facebook.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.67
Mar 23, 2026
View source →http-blocking-timeout
"HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for instagram.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.67
Mar 23, 2026
View source →http-blocking-timeout
"HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for signal.org"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.67
Mar 23, 2026
View source →http-blocking-timeout
"HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for telegram.org"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.67
Mar 23, 2026
View source →http-blocking-timeout
"HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for twitter.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.67
Mar 23, 2026
View source →+ 1 more Censored Planet records
Affected Services (7)
FacebookInstagramSignalTelegramTwitter/XXYouTube
Blocked Domains (6)
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.
- 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-2026-0122]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/EG-2026-0122
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