BLACKOUT MAP

Internet outage history

Ghana

Operational 15/15 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC

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

Live status of Ghana RSS feed

7 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
53outages measured since 2022
0reported 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
Oct 16Oct 230%50%100%
Hosts uplowest hour

Our probes · hosts reachable

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%

IODA · routes and active probing, % of normal

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%
BGP routesActive probingIODA (Georgia Tech)

Latency from our server (Germany)

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290 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 Ghana since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.

Attacks and context

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

DDoS attacks aimed at Ghana · 7 days

Oct 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 83% · UDP Flood 10% · DNS Amplification 3% · NTP Amplification 1%
Duration
46% longer than 1 h · 48% under 20 min
Size
100% under 500 Mbit/s · 0% over 10 Gbit/s
Web attacks from
Scancom Limited 53% · Ghana Telecommunications Company Limited 26% · Space Exploration Technologies 14%

Routing incidents · 7 days · Cloudflare Radar

0 possible hijacks of networks in Ghana, 2+ route leaks involving it.

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

53 incidents · 6 blackouts · 8 partial outages

Outages in Ghana 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
Aug 20, 2026 04:507 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 74% of normal
Jul 29, 2026 03:205 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 73% of normal
Jun 20, 2026 12:202 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 2% of normal
May 3, 2026 20:5050 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 39% of normal
Apr 7, 2026 02:4040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 64% of normal
Oct 31, 2025 06:2050 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 68% of normal
Aug 10, 2025 07:3030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 82% of normal
Jun 13, 2025 15:401 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 78% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 10:103 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 32% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 20:105 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 78% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 17:3050 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 89% of normal
Oct 3, 2024 16:4040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 71% of normal
Show all 53
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
May 14, 2024 23:2525 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 81% of normal
Mar 26, 2024 00:1010 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 91% of normal
Mar 14, 2024 05:307 days BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 16% of normal
Nov 19, 2023 12:402 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 22% of normal
Mar 28, 2023 00:003 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 80% of normal
Mar 20, 2023 19:202 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 91% of normal
Mar 10, 2023 19:3510 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 83% of normal
Mar 7, 2023 19:401 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 90% of normal
Mar 3, 2023 20:202 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 93% of normal
Mar 3, 2023 15:003 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 88% of normal
Mar 3, 2023 04:502 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 87% of normal
Mar 1, 2023 20:002 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 87% of normal
Jan 20, 2023 11:002 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Jan 18, 2023 17:451 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 81% of normal
Jan 16, 2023 11:052 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Dec 4, 2022 04:301 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 81% of normal
Nov 25, 2022 09:357 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Nov 18, 2022 12:5535 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Nov 16, 2022 17:0050 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Nov 10, 2022 23:404 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Oct 17, 2022 18:501 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Aug 21, 2022 13:357 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Aug 21, 2022 10:052 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Jul 16, 2022 08:5011 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Jul 3, 2022 07:4520 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Jul 2, 2022 05:1030 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 43% of normal
Jun 14, 2022 11:151 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Jun 9, 2022 09:453 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Jun 3, 2022 11:0528 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 91% of normal
May 23, 2022 11:357 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 89% of normal
May 20, 2022 13:156 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
May 17, 2022 10:002 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
May 7, 2022 20:054 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Apr 27, 2022 05:157 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Apr 22, 2022 15:552 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Apr 6, 2022 15:153 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Apr 3, 2022 09:304 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Mar 15, 2022 18:054 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 88% of normal
Mar 11, 2022 15:1030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 70% of normal
Mar 4, 2022 15:354 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Feb 7, 2022 15:053 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

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

Provided by Internet Society.

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for Ghana.

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