Censorship detected in South Sudan

South Sudan · January 23, 2025 · Ongoing

CenAlert detected interference. Impact: 30.2. Reported by: unknown.

Evidence

0%

Anomaly Rate

0

Measurements

75%

Confidence

0% of tests showed anomalies, above the typical 1-3% baseline. This suggests potential network interference.

Data Sourcecensoredplanet

ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)

Confidence Score75% certainty of censorship

Detection TimeJanuary 23, 2025

Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.

Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research1 record

interference

"unknown"— Censored Planet report

Signal value: 30.17

Jan 23, 2025

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.

Voidly Research. (2025). Censorship detected in South Sudan [SS-2025-0002]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/SS-2025-0002