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Confirmed: internet outage in Ethiopia

Ethiopia · April 28, 2026 · Ongoing

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Ethiopia. 10 critical alerts recorded.

Evidence

52%
Anomaly Rate
10
Measurements
75%
Confidence

What This Means

52% of 10 network tests from Ethiopia failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 49+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.

How We Detected This

Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v2 (99.8% F1, internal eval)
Confidence Score75% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeApril 28, 2026

Corroborating Evidence (13)

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

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis13 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Addis Ababa"IODA report
Signal value: 0.79
Apr 28, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Addis Ababa"IODA report
Signal value: 0.85
Apr 28, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Addis Ababa"IODA report
Signal value: 0.81
Apr 28, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Oromiya"IODA report
Signal value: 0.03
Apr 28, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples"IODA report
Signal value: 0.09
Apr 28, 2026
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+ 8 more IODA records

Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Ethiopia [ET-2026-0055]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/ET-2026-0055

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