Active Incident
Internet outage in Ethiopia
Ethiopia · May 7, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Ethiopia. 2 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
78%
Anomaly Rate
2
Measurements
67%
Confidence
What This Means
78% of 2 network tests from Ethiopia failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 75+ 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 Score67% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 7, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (2)
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 Addis Ababa"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.78
May 7, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Addis Ababa"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.78
May 7, 2026
View source →Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in Ethiopia [ET-2026-0064]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/ET-2026-0064