BLACKOUT MAP

Internet outage history

Zimbabwe

Operational 25/25 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC

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

Live status of Zimbabwe RSS feed

Manicaland — Operational · 2/2 hosts upMatabeleland North — Operational · 3/3 hosts upHarare — Operational · 15/15 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
64outages 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 Zimbabwe since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.

Attacks and context

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

DDoS attacks aimed at Zimbabwe · 7 days

Oct 22Oct 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
UDP Flood 66% · Mirai (UDP) Flood 32% · DNS Flood 1% · SYN Flood 1%
Duration
45% longer than 1 h · 42% under 20 min
Size
100% under 500 Mbit/s · 0% over 10 Gbit/s
Web attacks from
Space Exploration Technologies 37% · Telecontract Pvt 14% · Telone PVT 13%

Routing incidents · 7 days · Cloudflare Radar

0 possible hijacks of networks in Zimbabwe, 8+ route leaks involving it.

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

64 incidents · 15 blackouts · 21 partial outages

Outages in Zimbabwe 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 26, 2026 08:202 days BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 36% of normal
Jul 28, 2026 18:101 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 79% of normal
Jul 13, 2026 10:053 days Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 73% of normal
Jul 6, 2026 09:152 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 89% of normal
Jun 20, 2026 12:202 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 2% of normal
Jun 12, 2026 13:002 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 41% of normal
May 13, 2026 19:1040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 75% of normal
May 7, 2026 07:305 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 28% of normal
May 2, 2026 19:401 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 66% of normal
Apr 30, 2026 20:1040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 77% of normal
Apr 30, 2026 18:0030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 68% of normal
Apr 24, 2026 12:109 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 25% of normal
Show all 64
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Mar 27, 2026 15:2555 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 85% of normal
Feb 3, 2026 23:103 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Feb 2, 2026 17:5040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 60% of normal
Feb 2, 2026 15:4050 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 73% of normal
Dec 2, 2025 19:504 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 70% of normal
Dec 2, 2025 18:4030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 71% of normal
Nov 20, 2025 17:505 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Nov 17, 2025 09:3035 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 72% of normal
Nov 16, 2025 21:2011 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 41% of normal
Nov 12, 2025 15:5023 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Oct 31, 2025 06:001 hour BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 31% 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 23% of normal
May 6, 2025 05:5520 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 95% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 10:103 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 34% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 03:101 hour BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 31% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 22:102 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 85% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 20:101 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 82% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 17:4030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 88% of normal
Feb 17, 2025 18:5520 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 85% of normal
Nov 19, 2024 03:401 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 90% of normal
Oct 7, 2024 03:003 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 93% of normal
Aug 31, 2024 12:1050 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 79% of normal
Aug 15, 2024 16:007 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 88% of normal
Jul 31, 2024 14:3030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 72% of normal
Jul 10, 2024 16:005 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Jun 18, 2024 13:007 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing + routes, lowest 25% of normal
Feb 8, 2024 21:1040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 54% of normal
Dec 15, 2023 16:507 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 46% of normal
Nov 27, 2023 15:3030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 64% of normal
Nov 19, 2023 12:403 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 24% of normal
Oct 15, 2023 06:3030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 57% of normal
Oct 1, 2023 01:5530 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 92% of normal
Aug 26, 2023 19:002 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 49% of normal
Aug 8, 2023 17:501 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 71% of normal
Jun 9, 2023 03:302 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 87% of normal
May 8, 2023 11:404 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 72% of normal
Apr 15, 2023 19:5510 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 85% of normal
Apr 14, 2023 11:251 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 81% of normal
Apr 13, 2023 22:504 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 87% of normal
Apr 12, 2023 23:307 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 86% of normal
Apr 11, 2023 23:206 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 84% of normal
Apr 9, 2023 06:0050 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 91% of normal
Apr 8, 2023 10:3050 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 95% of normal
Apr 8, 2023 03:101 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 90% of normal
Apr 7, 2023 23:301 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 90% of normal
Apr 5, 2023 14:301 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 86% of normal
Oct 26, 2022 13:0513 days Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): routes + active probing, lowest 67% of normal
Sep 19, 2022 13:5030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 77% of normal
Jul 2, 2022 05:1030 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 28% of normal
Jun 5, 2022 19:455 days DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 94% of normal
Mar 11, 2022 15:1030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 53% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

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

  • National internet shutdown (Mobile Internet Services, Social Networks), since Jan 15, 2019 — 9 days

Shutdown data provided by Internet Society. Pulse

Submarine cable incidents

No submarine cable incidents recorded for Zimbabwe.

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