Confirmed: internet outage in Zimbabwe

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Confirmed: internet outage in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe · March 27, 2026 · 49 minutes

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in Zimbabwe. 12 critical alerts recorded.

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Evidence

21%

Anomaly Rate

12

Measurements

75%

Confidence

What This Means

21% of tests showed anomalies, above the typical 1-3% baseline. This suggests potential network interference.

How We Detected This

Data Sourceioda

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

Confidence Score75% certainty of censorship

Detection TimeMarch 27, 2026

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Corroborating Evidence (12)

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

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis12 records

outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Mashonaland West"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.40

Mar 27, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Midlands"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.52

Mar 27, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Harare"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.21

Mar 27, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Masvingo"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.37

Mar 27, 2026

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outage

"IODA detected critical level outage for Masvingo"— IODA report

Signal value: 0.58

Mar 27, 2026

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+ 7 more IODA 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.
Independent corroboration — this rests on a single source; treat it as a single-source signal, not a multi-source confirmation.

Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: internet outage in Zimbabwe [ZW-2026-0027]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/ZW-2026-0027

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Confirmed: internet outage in Zimbabwe

Evidence

What This Means

How We Detected This

Corroborating Evidence (12)

What we cannot say

Cite This Incident

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