BLACKOUT MAP

Internet outage history

Sierra Leone

Operational 19/19 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC

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

Live status of Sierra Leone RSS feed

3 hosts14 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
59outages 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
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 ms100 ms200 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 Sierra Leone since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.

Attacks and context

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

DDoS attacks aimed at Sierra Leone · 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.

Web attacks from
Zoodlabs(SL) Limited 47% · Fiber One (SL) LIMITED 15% · Orange (SL) Limited 14%

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

59 incidents · 13 blackouts · 12 partial outages

Outages in Sierra Leone 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
Oct 15, 2026 22:2030 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 7% of normal
Aug 4, 2026 11:5050 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Aug 4, 2026 08:3035 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Aug 4, 2026 01:256 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Jun 20, 2026 11:402 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 30% of normal
May 28, 2026 11:5030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 69% of normal
May 28, 2026 09:101 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 64% of normal
May 3, 2026 20:5040 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 42% of normal
Apr 11, 2026 00:002 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Apr 4, 2026 10:0020 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 92% of normal
Apr 4, 2026 02:0050 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 67% of normal
Mar 20, 2026 04:152 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 88% of normal
Show all 59
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Mar 20, 2026 01:3040 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Mar 10, 2026 03:3545 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 89% of normal
Mar 8, 2026 02:2520 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 89% of normal
Mar 6, 2026 02:4040 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 80% of normal
Mar 4, 2026 02:401 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Mar 4, 2026 00:2040 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Feb 25, 2026 01:052 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Feb 24, 2026 04:3525 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Feb 22, 2026 02:102 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Feb 21, 2026 02:352 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Feb 18, 2026 02:0530 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Feb 15, 2026 21:0040 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Dec 9, 2025 00:2530 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 89% of normal
Dec 2, 2025 03:0520 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 92% of normal
Oct 31, 2025 06:001 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 57% of normal
Jul 20, 2025 15:001 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Jul 8, 2025 14:209 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
May 30, 2025 14:505 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 10:103 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 33% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 22:103 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 86% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 20:101 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 84% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 17:3040 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 93% of normal
Jan 15, 2025 02:251 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Nov 19, 2024 03:405 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 84% of normal
Oct 30, 2024 11:5511 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 91% of normal
Oct 20, 2024 00:008 days Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 62% of normal
Oct 3, 2024 16:4040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 55% of normal
Sep 18, 2024 17:157 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 91% of normal
Sep 11, 2024 05:3510 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Sep 7, 2024 03:5513 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 79% of normal
Aug 4, 2024 06:454 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 16% of normal
Jul 21, 2024 20:3525 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 91% of normal
Jul 6, 2024 11:0030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 79% of normal
Jun 13, 2024 04:4545 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Jun 10, 2024 16:0530 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 91% of normal
May 30, 2024 23:456 days BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 17% of normal
Apr 8, 2024 00:052 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 11% of normal
Mar 14, 2024 05:001 hour BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 27% of normal
Nov 19, 2023 12:403 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 22% of normal
Jul 28, 2023 13:252 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 51% of normal
Jul 10, 2023 21:5545 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 54% of normal
Nov 8, 2022 06:5030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 77% of normal
Aug 11, 2022 00:308 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 11% of normal
Aug 10, 2022 12:102 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 11% of normal
Jul 2, 2022 05:1040 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 32% of normal
Mar 26, 2022 08:304 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 54% of normal
Mar 11, 2022 15:1030 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 47% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

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

  • National internet shutdown (Internet Services), since Aug 11, 2022 — 8 hours

Shutdown data provided by Internet Society. Pulse

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for Sierra Leone.

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