Active Incident
Internet outage in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Sierra Leone. 1 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
71%
Anomaly Rate
1
Measurements
65%
Confidence
What This Means
71% of 1 network tests from Sierra Leone failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 68+ 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 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 Western"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.71
May 3, 2026
View source →Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in Sierra Leone [SL-2026-0019]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/SL-2026-0019