Internet outage history

Eritrea

Operational 10/10 hosts up since Oct 24, 2026 19:50 UTC

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

Live status of Eritrea RSS feed

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.

6incidents recorded

3 hourstotal disruption

30 minlongest incident

13outages measured since 2022

1reported shutdowns since 2019

Overview

Last 90 days

Worst status per day, last 90 days

Aug 1, 2026 Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Not monitored yet Today

Daily reachability

last 30 days

Hosts uplowest hour

Our probes · hosts reachable

last 72 hours

IODA · routes and active probing, % of normal

last 72 hours

BGP routesActive probingIODA (Georgia Tech)

Latency from our server (Germany)

last 72 hours

Latency25–75%

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

Incidents

All incidents

our probes and IODA

Started (UTC)	Duration	Worst level	Evidence
Oct 24, 2026 19:30	30 min	Degraded	10 of 10 monitored hosts reachable · BGP routes at 98% of normal
Oct 24, 2026 10:55	20 min	Degraded	10 of 10 monitored hosts reachable · BGP routes at 98% of normal · confirmed from other locations
Oct 19, 2026 12:05	25 min	Degraded	10 of 10 monitored hosts reachable
Oct 19, 2026 08:50	30 min	Degraded	7 of 10 monitored hosts reachable · our probes ignored (route from our server)
Oct 19, 2026 08:10	30 min	Degraded	7 of 10 monitored hosts reachable · our probes ignored (route from our server)
Oct 19, 2026 07:00	30 min	Degraded	0 of 10 monitored hosts reachable · our probes ignored (route from our server)

Attacks and context

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

DDoS attacks aimed at Eritrea · 7 days

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.

Web attacks from: Eritrea Telecommunication Service corporation (EriTel) 90% · Space Exploration Technologies 10%

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

13 incidents · 1 blackouts · 5 partial outages

Outages in Eritrea 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)	Duration	Worst level	Evidence
Oct 7, 2025 01:10	30 min	Partial outage	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 75% of normal
Jun 13, 2025 10:10	27 hours	Partial outage	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 68% of normal
May 24, 2025 12:10	4 hours	Partial outage	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 65% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 10:10	3 hours	Blackout	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 45% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 22:00	3 hours	Degraded	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 83% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 20:10	1 hour	Degraded	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 83% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 17:40	30 min	Degraded	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 88% of normal
Sep 26, 2024 21:40	10 days	Partial outage	IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 75% of normal
Aug 19, 2023 06:25	6 days	Degraded	IODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Mar 15, 2023 11:25	3 days	Degraded	IODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Nov 20, 2022 19:55	2 days	Degraded	IODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Nov 5, 2022 09:00	3 days	Degraded	IODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal

Show all 13

Started (UTC)	Duration	Worst level	Evidence
Mar 7, 2022 09:10	2 hours	Partial outage	IODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 76% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

The Internet Society Pulse tracker records 1 government-ordered shutdown or block in Eritrea since 2019.

Apps and websites blocked (Social Networks, Facebook), since May 15, 2019 — 10 days

Shutdown data provided by Internet Society. Pulse

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for Eritrea.

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