Confirmed: internet outage in Ethiopia

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Confirmed: internet outage in Ethiopia

Ethiopia · May 3, 2026 · 20 hours

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Ethiopia. 9 critical alerts recorded.

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Evidence

86%

Anomaly Rate

9

Measurements

70%

Confidence

What This Means

86% of 9 network tests from Ethiopia failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 83+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.

How We Detected This

Data Sourceioda

ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)

Confidence Score70% certainty of censorship

Detection TimeMay 3, 2026

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Corroborating Evidence (11)

Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis11 records

outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Addis Ababa"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.71

May 3, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Oromiya"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.60

May 3, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Addis Ababa"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.88

May 3, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Addis Ababa"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.88

May 3, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Addis Ababa"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.84

May 3, 2026

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+ 6 more IODA records

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.
Independent corroboration — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.

Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Ethiopia [ET-2026-0060]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/ET-2026-0060

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Confirmed: internet outage in Ethiopia

Evidence

What This Means

How We Detected This

Corroborating Evidence (11)

What we cannot say

Cite This Incident

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