Active Incident
Internet outage in Zambia
Zambia · May 3, 2026 · Ongoing
IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Zambia. 2 critical alerts recorded.
Evidence
67%
Anomaly Rate
2
Measurements
67%
Confidence
What This Means
67% of 2 network tests from Zambia failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 64+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceioda
ML ModelGradientBoosting v2 (99.8% F1, internal eval)
Confidence Score67% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMay 3, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (2)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis2 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Copperbelt"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.72
May 3, 2026
View source →outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Lusaka"— IODA report
Signal value: 0.62
May 3, 2026
View source →Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in Zambia [ZM-2026-0004]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/ZM-2026-0004