BLACKOUT MAP

Internet outage history

Botswana

Operational 5/5 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC

Every disruption Blackout Map has recorded in Botswana since monitoring began on October 16, 2026, with reported government shutdowns and submarine cable incidents.

Live status of Botswana RSS feed

1 host4 hosts
Where our monitored hosts are Each dot is a place with monitored hosts; bigger dots have more. The country is shaded in its status now.
0incidents recorded
0total disruption
—longest incident
38outages measured since 2022
0reported shutdowns since 2019

Overview

Last 90 days

Worst status per day, last 90 days
Jul 31, 2026 Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Not monitored yet Today

Daily reachability

last 30 days
Oct 16Oct 230%50%100%
Hosts uplowest hour

Our probes · hosts reachable

last 72 hours
Oct 26Oct 27Oct 280%50%100%

IODA · routes and active probing, % of normal

last 72 hours
Oct 26Oct 27Oct 280%50%100%
BGP routesActive probingIODA (Georgia Tech)

Latency from our server (Germany)

last 72 hours
Oct 26Oct 27Oct 280 ms150 ms300 ms
Latency25–75%

The same measurements as the live panel, per 30 minutes. Times in UTC.

Incidents

All incidents

our probes and IODA

No disruptions recorded in Botswana since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.

Attacks and context

Context only — they don't change the status above.

DDoS attacks aimed at Botswana · 7 days

Oct 22Oct 23Oct 24Oct 25Oct 26Oct 27Oct 280%50%100%
Network DDoSWeb attacksCloudflare Radar

Per hour; each line is relative to its own busiest hour of the week (100%). Context only — attacks never change a country's status.

Types
Mirai (UDP) Flood 39% · UDP Flood 34% · CLDAP Flood 13% · UDP Fragments Flood 7%
Duration
35% longer than 1 h · 56% under 20 min
Size
99% under 500 Mbit/s · 1% over 10 Gbit/s
Web attacks from
VBN Services 19% · Space Exploration Technologies 17% · STATURE (PTY) 14%

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

38 incidents · 15 blackouts · 12 partial outages

Outages in Botswana detected by IODA (Georgia Tech) between January 2022 and the start of our own monitoring: drops in the country's internet routes (BGP) or in its reachability from IODA's active probing, compared with the day before. Each is checked against IODA's signal; small dips are left out.

Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Sep 22, 2026 09:101 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 68% of normal
Jun 20, 2026 12:202 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 3% of normal
May 3, 2026 20:5040 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 34% of normal
Aug 11, 2025 01:2020 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 91% of normal
Aug 10, 2025 07:3030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 84% of normal
Jun 30, 2025 00:003 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 92% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 10:103 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 35% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 22:103 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 86% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 20:101 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 78% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 17:4030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 89% of normal
Feb 27, 2025 08:201 hour BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 48% of normal
Dec 7, 2024 00:3050 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 70% of normal
Show all 38
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Oct 3, 2024 16:4040 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 39% of normal
Sep 14, 2024 19:007 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Sep 11, 2024 10:304 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 66% of normal
Aug 21, 2024 03:1030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 79% of normal
Jul 4, 2024 14:103 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 70% of normal
Apr 21, 2024 07:2531 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 54% of normal
Nov 19, 2023 12:403 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 20% of normal
Oct 8, 2023 13:404 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 53% of normal
Sep 5, 2023 11:3050 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 55% of normal
Aug 25, 2023 14:202 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 46% of normal
Aug 17, 2023 14:506 days BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 40% of normal
Aug 11, 2023 18:403 days BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 44% of normal
Aug 11, 2023 12:305 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 42% of normal
Jun 22, 2023 13:503 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 91% of normal
May 30, 2023 19:302 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 41% of normal
Apr 25, 2023 02:1040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 73% of normal
Mar 27, 2023 05:001 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 87% of normal
Mar 10, 2023 13:501 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 70% of normal
Dec 5, 2022 08:304 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 66% of normal
Nov 28, 2022 21:552 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Nov 26, 2022 03:1527 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Sep 30, 2022 00:252 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 50% of normal
Sep 14, 2022 22:5045 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Jul 2, 2022 05:1030 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 46% of normal
Jun 20, 2022 13:002 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 45% of normal
Jun 3, 2022 08:105 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 46% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

The Internet Society Pulse tracker has no recorded government shutdowns or blocks in Botswana since 2019.

Provided by Internet Society.

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for Botswana.

Cable incidents: GeoCables (CC BY 4.0). Context only — they never change a country's status.