Active Incident
Internet outage in Egypt
Egypt · May 11, 2026 · 16 hours
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Egypt. 4 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.
Evidence
30%
Anomaly Rate
4
Measurements
67%
Confidence
What This Means
30% 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 TimeMay 11, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (17)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis10 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Al Minya"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.26
May 11, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Al Minya"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.37
May 11, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Al Minya"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.26
May 11, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Al Minya"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.30
May 11, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Al Minya"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.22
May 11, 2026
View source →+ 5 more IODA records
Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research7 records
http-blocking-timeout
"HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for huggingface.co"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.50
May 11, 2026
View source →http-blocking-timeout
"HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for instagram.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.50
May 11, 2026
View source →http-blocking-timeout
"HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for openai.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.50
May 11, 2026
View source →http-blocking-timeout
"HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for signal.org"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.50
May 11, 2026
View source →http-blocking-timeout
"HTTP blocking (timeout): 2/4 probes blocked (50.0%) for telegram.org"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.50
May 11, 2026
View source →+ 2 more Censored Planet records
Affected Services (6)
InstagramSignalTelegramTwitter/XXYouTube
Blocked Domains (7)
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-2026-0196]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/EG-2026-0196
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