BLACKOUT MAP

Internet outage history

Zambia

Operational 6/6 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC

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

Live status of Zambia RSS feed

5 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
62outages 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 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 Zambia since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.

Attacks and context

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

DDoS attacks aimed at Zambia · 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.

Types
Mirai (UDP) Flood 68% · UDP Flood 30% · SSDP Flood 1% · ACK Flood 0%
Duration
59% longer than 1 h · 31% under 20 min
Size
100% under 500 Mbit/s · 0% over 10 Gbit/s
Web attacks from
MTN Zambia 32% · Zain Zambia PLC 29% · Space Exploration Technologies 14%

Routing incidents · 7 days · Cloudflare Radar

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

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

62 incidents · 9 blackouts · 27 partial outages

Outages in Zambia 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 26, 2026 09:5050 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 64% of normal
Jun 20, 2026 12:202 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 2% of normal
May 7, 2026 08:403 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 55% of normal
May 3, 2026 20:5050 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 38% of normal
Apr 24, 2026 16:404 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 58% of normal
Apr 24, 2026 12:103 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 59% of normal
Feb 2, 2026 17:5040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 67% of normal
Feb 2, 2026 15:4050 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 77% of normal
Nov 16, 2025 17:3050 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 77% of normal
Oct 31, 2025 06:001 hour BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 36% of normal
Aug 14, 2025 05:2520 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 91% of normal
Show all 62
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Aug 13, 2025 21:257 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 79% of normal
Aug 10, 2025 07:3030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 83% of normal
Jul 14, 2025 18:5040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 70% of normal
May 16, 2025 00:3030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 68% of normal
Apr 20, 2025 06:001 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 80% of normal
Apr 20, 2025 03:4030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 81% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 10:103 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 32% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 03:101 hour BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 34% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 20:105 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 78% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 17:4030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 88% of normal
Dec 16, 2024 13:0545 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 87% of normal
Dec 13, 2024 11:3025 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Oct 5, 2024 15:4545 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 92% of normal
Oct 5, 2024 13:5555 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 92% of normal
Sep 13, 2024 19:0013 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 86% of normal
Sep 8, 2024 03:5030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 81% of normal
Aug 31, 2024 11:203 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 71% of normal
Jul 24, 2024 18:501 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 73% of normal
Jul 16, 2024 16:0032 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 91% of normal
Jul 6, 2024 11:0030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 72% of normal
Jun 23, 2024 06:052 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Jun 20, 2024 02:351 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 67% of normal
Jun 19, 2024 04:4030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 80% of normal
Jun 19, 2024 02:2030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 78% of normal
Jun 18, 2024 13:107 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 70% of normal
Jun 7, 2024 05:2555 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
May 18, 2024 14:309 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 87% of normal
May 8, 2024 08:2030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 75% of normal
Apr 25, 2024 17:1030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 76% of normal
Apr 15, 2024 14:404 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 65% of normal
Mar 24, 2024 11:355 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 45% of normal
Mar 5, 2024 18:4030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 84% of normal
Mar 1, 2024 04:0020 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 92% of normal
Feb 15, 2024 14:103 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Feb 8, 2024 21:1040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 73% of normal
Dec 15, 2023 16:507 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 63% of normal
Dec 14, 2023 08:203 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 51% of normal
Nov 19, 2023 12:403 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 21% of normal
Nov 7, 2023 08:3045 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Oct 9, 2023 17:4550 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Aug 26, 2023 19:002 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 70% of normal
Jun 19, 2023 06:202 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 91% of normal
Jun 18, 2023 21:302 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 87% of normal
Jun 18, 2023 19:5050 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 88% of normal
Oct 29, 2022 11:0030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 60% of normal
Sep 15, 2022 12:051 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 90% of normal
Jul 2, 2022 05:1030 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 46% of normal
Apr 16, 2022 11:3025 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 87% of normal
Apr 16, 2022 09:1055 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 84% of normal
Mar 11, 2022 15:1030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 70% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

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

  • Apps and websites blocked (X (Twitter), Facebook, WhatsApp), since Aug 12, 2021 — 2 days

Shutdown data provided by Internet Society. Pulse

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for Zambia.

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