[Measurement-wg] Measuring Internet Resilience - Uganda Internet shutdown

[Amreesh Phokeer]

Hi Paulos,

A more detailed report from OONI

https://ooni.org/post/2021-uganda-general-election-blocks-and-outage/


> On 20 Jan 2021, at 12:01, Dr P Nyirenda <paulos at sdnp.org.mw> wrote:

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> Also interesting to note is that more than 90% of the Uganda-IX traffic is dependent on international connectivity or was the local network around the IXP also shutdown?. I am wondering also if that may also be based on CDNs and their related external management and cache fill issues. 


I suspect, with the order to shutdown, ISPs turned off all BGP sessions including peering sessions.

Regards,
Amreesh