Active Incident
Confirmed: internet outage in Kenya
Kenya · July 29, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Kenya. 5 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
54%
Anomaly Rate
5
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
54% of 5 network tests from Kenya failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 51+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO mean F1 0.711, honest across 131 countries)
Confidence Score70% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJuly 29, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (5)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis5 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Coast"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.02
Jul 29, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Nairobi"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.87
Jul 29, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Nairobi"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.21
Jul 29, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Nairobi"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.79
Jul 29, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Nairobi"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.81
Jul 29, 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). Confirmed: internet outage in Kenya [KE-2026-0027]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/KE-2026-0027
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