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Internet outage in Tanzania

Tanzania · April 19, 2026 · 10 minutes

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Tanzania. 2 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.

Evidence

12%
Anomaly Rate
2
Measurements
67%
Confidence

What This Means

12% 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 TimeApril 19, 2026

Corroborating Evidence (3)

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

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis2 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Dodoma"IODA report
Signal value: 0.23
Apr 19, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Dodoma"IODA report
Signal value: 0.01
Apr 19, 2026
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Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research1 record
http-blocking-timeout
"HTTPS blocking (timeout): 2/3 probes blocked (66.7%) for twitter.com"Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.67
Apr 19, 2026
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Affected Services (2)

Twitter/XX

Blocked Domains (1)

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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 Tanzania [TZ-2026-0037]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/TZ-2026-0037

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