Active Incident
Internet outage in Malawi
Malawi · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Malawi. 1 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
73%
Anomaly Rate
1
Measurements
65%
Confidence
What This Means
73% of 1 network tests from Malawi failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 70+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v2 (99.8% F1, internal eval)
Confidence Score65% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 3, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (1)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis1 record
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Blantyre"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.73
May 3, 2026
View source →Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in Malawi [MW-2026-0032]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/MW-2026-0032