Large drop in traffic from the Democratic Republic of Congo
It is not uncommon for countries around the world to interrupt Internet access for political reasons or because of social unrest. We’ve seen this many times in the past (e.g. Gabon, Syria, Togo).
Today, it appears that Internet access in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been greatly curtailed. The BBC reports that Internet access in the capital, Kinshasa was cut on Saturday and iAfrikan reports that the cut is because of anti-Kabila protests.
Our monitoring of traffic from the Democratic Republic of Congo shows a distinct drop off starting around midnight UTC on January 21, 2018. Traffic is down to about 1/3 of its usual level.
We’ll update this blog once we have more information about traffic levels.
Originally published at blog.cloudflare.com on January 22, 2018.
