Active Incident
Confirmed: internet outage in Ethiopia
Ethiopia · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Ethiopia. 9 critical alerts recorded.
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
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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"IODA detected critical level outage for Oromiya"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.60
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Addis Ababa"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.88
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Addis Ababa"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.88
May 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Addis Ababa"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.84
May 3, 2026
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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