Active Incident
Confirmed: internet outage in Nepal
Nepal · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Nepal. 5 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
56%
Anomaly Rate
5
Measurements
70%
Confidence
What This Means
56% of 5 network tests from Nepal failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 53+ 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 Score70% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 3, 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 Bheri"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.54
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Unknown Region in Nepal"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.52
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Bagmati"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.57
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Bhojpur"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.60
May 3, 2026
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"IODA detected critical level outage for Gandaki"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.59
May 3, 2026
View source →Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Nepal [NP-2026-0049]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/NP-2026-0049