Active Incident
Confirmed: network disruption in Nepal
Nepal · January 8, 2026 · 53 days
IODA detected significant connectivity drop. 2 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.
Evidence
26%
Anomaly Rate
21
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
26% of tests showed anomalies, above the typical 1-3% baseline. This suggests potential network interference.
How We Detected This
Data Sourcecensoredplanet + ioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score70% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJanuary 8, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (65)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis56 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Sagarmatha"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.01
Mar 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Narayani"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.03
Mar 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Sagarmatha"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.23
Mar 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Janakpur"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.22
Mar 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Narayani"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.32
Mar 3, 2026
View source →+ 51 more IODA records
Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research9 records
interference
"unknown"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.13
Feb 9, 2026
View source →interference
"unknown"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.17
Feb 9, 2026
View source →interference
"unknown"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.20
Feb 9, 2026
View source →interference
"unknown"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.24
Feb 9, 2026
View source →interference
"unknown"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.30
Feb 9, 2026
View source →+ 4 more Censored Planet records
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.
- Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: network disruption in Nepal [NP-2026-0002]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/NP-2026-0002