Gabon
The Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA) dashboard showed a significant drop in BGP activity, and as a consequence Google traffic, in Gabon since 26 August around 18:00 UTC and resuming on 30 August around 7:00 UTC.
These results are also mirrored by Cloudflare Radar.
Google’s Transparency Report similarly shows the shutdown and return of service:
If we look at the top networks in the country, we can see this Internet shutdown had various effects. For example, Gabon Telecom (AS16058), the incumbent and largest ISP in Gabon, Internet connectivity dropped to 0% between 18:30 and 20:30 on 26 August (UTC) and resumed 100% connectivity at 00:50 on 27 August.
In comparison, two of the next four largest Internet service providers have not transmitted Internet traffic since 17:00-17:45 on 26 August, while GVA Canalbox (AS36924) and Airtel (AS37616), which offer fiber and mobile services respectively to nearly 40% of the country’s Internet users, have seen their Internet traffic drop between 20 to nearly 40%. These findings indicate that the shutdown affected both fiber and mobile operations, more so the later given that Gabon Telecom and Airtel are the top two mobile providers in Gabon.
