Active Incident
Internet outage in DR Congo
DR Congo · June 20, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in DR Congo. 2 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
57%
Anomaly Rate
2
Measurements
67%
Confidence
What This Means
57% of 2 network tests from DR Congo failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 54+ 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 TimeJune 20, 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 Unknown Region in Democratic Republic Of The Congo"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.58
Jun 20, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Kinshasa City"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.56
Jun 20, 2026
View source →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.
- A confirmed duration — we report the observation window, not a verified start/stop of any block.
- 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). Internet outage in DR Congo [CD-2026-0056]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/CD-2026-0056
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