BLACKOUT MAP

Internet outage history

Yemen

Operational 7/10 hosts up since Oct 21, 2026 09:45 UTC

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

Live status of Yemen RSS feed

8 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.
6incidents recorded
22 hourstotal disruption
18 hourslongest incident
38outages measured since 2022
8reported 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 ms75 ms150 ms
Latency25–75%

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

Incidents

All incidents

our probes and IODA
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Oct 21, 2026 09:1540 min Degraded7 of 11 monitored hosts reachable (normally 73%)
Oct 17, 2026 13:1518 hours Degraded8 of 11 monitored hosts reachable (normally 91%)
Oct 17, 2026 08:501 hour Degraded9 of 11 monitored hosts reachable
Oct 17, 2026 07:5020 min Degraded9 of 11 monitored hosts reachable
Oct 16, 2026 14:3035 min Degraded3 of 5 monitored hosts reachable (normally 80%)
Oct 16, 2026 11:1020 min Degraded4 of 5 monitored hosts reachable

Attacks and context

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

DDoS attacks aimed at Yemen · 7 days

Oct 23Oct 24Oct 25Oct 26Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%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
Public Telecommunication 63% · Space Exploration Technologies 36% · Cloudflare 1%

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

38 incidents · 8 blackouts · 19 partial outages

Outages in Yemen 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
Apr 29, 2026 06:2030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 83% of normal
Apr 7, 2026 15:305 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 60% of normal
Apr 7, 2026 06:101 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 72% of normal
Mar 27, 2026 10:1030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 77% of normal
Feb 22, 2026 07:1050 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 71% of normal
Nov 21, 2025 05:1525 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 87% of normal
Aug 19, 2025 20:302 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 60% of normal
Aug 11, 2025 14:101 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 75% of normal
Aug 10, 2025 07:3030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 78% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 10:103 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 23% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 22:302 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 81% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 20:101 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 83% of normal
Show all 38
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Mar 25, 2025 17:4030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 88% of normal
Aug 24, 2024 11:2030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 70% of normal
Aug 20, 2024 23:0025 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 84% of normal
Mar 26, 2024 02:3030 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 7% of normal
Mar 23, 2024 09:102 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 7% of normal
Mar 22, 2024 03:202 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 7% of normal
Feb 22, 2024 15:503 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 67% of normal
Dec 15, 2023 20:2040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 58% of normal
Nov 19, 2023 12:403 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 17% of normal
Nov 10, 2023 00:204 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 15% of normal
Sep 5, 2023 23:3030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 73% of normal
May 8, 2023 01:0030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 59% of normal
Sep 20, 2022 08:5030 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 44% of normal
Sep 11, 2022 20:3050 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 71% of normal
Aug 18, 2022 23:5535 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 79% of normal
Jun 27, 2022 06:409 days Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 54% of normal
May 14, 2022 22:0550 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Apr 6, 2022 03:101 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 78% of normal
Mar 31, 2022 09:203 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Mar 28, 2022 14:102 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 71% of normal
Mar 23, 2022 11:2035 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Mar 19, 2022 22:3030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 71% of normal
Mar 15, 2022 22:1030 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 37% of normal
Mar 14, 2022 00:3025 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Mar 13, 2022 01:5030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 92% of normal
Mar 11, 2022 15:1030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 52% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

The Internet Society Pulse tracker records 8 government-ordered shutdowns or blocks in Yemen since 2019.

  • National internet shutdown (Internet Services), since Jan 20, 2022 — 3 days
  • Regional internet shutdown in Hadhramaut (Internet Services), since Oct 15, 2020 — 1 hour
  • Regional internet shutdown in Al Hudaydah (Internet Services), since Sep 24, 2020 — 523 days
  • Regional internet shutdown in Zanzibar (Internet Services), since Aug 19, 2020 — 4 hours
  • Regional internet shutdown in Al Jawf (Mobile Internet Services), since Aug 7, 2020 — 426 days
  • Regional internet shutdown in Amran, Sa'dah, Sana'a, Al Jawf (Internet Services, Mobile Internet Services), since Jul 22, 2020 — 266 days
  • National internet shutdown (Internet Services), since Jan 30, 2020 — 27 days
  • Regional internet shutdown in Al Hudaydah (Internet Services), since Apr 12, 2019 — 171 days

Shutdown data provided by Internet Society. Pulse

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for Yemen.

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