BLACKOUT MAP

Internet outage history

Uganda

Operational 20/21 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC

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

Live status of Uganda RSS feed

Western — Operational · 3/3 hosts upCentral — Operational · 13/13 hosts up
Regions right now Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Each dot is a state or province we measure separately, coloured by its status now; bigger dots have more hosts. The country is shaded in its overall status.
0incidents recorded
0total disruption
—longest incident
1regional outages
30outages measured since 2022
5reported 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 Uganda since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.

Regional outages · our probes

Outages in one state or province while the rest of Uganda stayed online, measured by our own probes. Hosts are placed by IP geolocation (DB-IP), which is sometimes off.

RegionStarted (UTC)DurationWorst level
WesternOct 18, 2026 16:3045 min Partial outage

Attacks and context

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

DDoS attacks aimed at Uganda · 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 74% · UDP Flood 19% · ACK Flood 6% · Mirai (TCP) Flood 1%
Duration
16% longer than 1 h · 79% under 20 min
Size
98% under 500 Mbit/s · 2% over 10 Gbit/s
Web attacks from
MTN Uganda 21% · Savanna Fibre Limited 16% · Uganda Telecom 16%

Routing incidents · 7 days · Cloudflare Radar

0 possible hijacks of networks in Uganda, 3+ route leaks involving it.

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

30 incidents · 8 blackouts · 14 partial outages

Outages in Uganda 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 6% 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 35% of normal
Jan 13, 2026 14:505 days BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 27% of normal
Dec 26, 2025 19:2030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 70% of normal
Aug 29, 2025 13:0035 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 46% of normal
Aug 22, 2025 06:202 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 72% of normal
Aug 10, 2025 07:3030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 85% of normal
Jul 24, 2025 08:5020 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 18% of normal
Jun 22, 2025 06:4535 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 65% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 10:103 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 31% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 22:103 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 85% of normal
Show all 30
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Mar 25, 2025 20:101 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 82% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 17:5030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 89% of normal
Jan 22, 2025 14:4050 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 63% of normal
Oct 3, 2024 16:4040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 62% of normal
Jul 6, 2024 11:0030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 76% of normal
Jun 25, 2024 13:307 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 62% of normal
May 16, 2024 22:201 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
May 9, 2024 23:402 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 61% of normal
Nov 28, 2023 17:1035 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 72% of normal
Nov 19, 2023 12:402 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 24% of normal
Oct 15, 2023 00:451 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Mar 5, 2023 21:203 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 77% of normal
Feb 13, 2023 14:3535 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Dec 1, 2022 10:0030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 82% of normal
Dec 1, 2022 00:403 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 72% of normal
Sep 18, 2022 15:101 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 77% of normal
Jul 2, 2022 05:1030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 53% of normal
Mar 11, 2022 15:1030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 68% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

The Internet Society Pulse tracker records 5 government-ordered shutdowns or blocks in Uganda since 2019.

  • Apps and websites blocked (Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp), since Jan 17, 2026 — ongoing
  • National internet shutdown (Mobile Internet, Broadband), since Jan 13, 2026 — 4 days
  • Apps and websites blocked (WhatsApp, Telegram, X (Twitter), Facebook Messenger, Google Play Store, YouTube), since Jan 18, 2021 — 38 hours
  • National internet shutdown (Internet Services), since Jan 13, 2021 — 5 days
  • Apps and websites blocked (Google Play Store, Telegram, X (Twitter), YouTube, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp), since Jan 11, 2021 — 40 hours

Shutdown data provided by Internet Society. Pulse

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for Uganda.

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