# Sustained censorship in KE (2026-10)

**Country:** 🇰🇪 Kenya (KE)
**Date:** 2026-10-30
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

OONI detected 3 days of elevated network interference averaging 65.9% anomaly rate.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 69%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 3
- Anomaly Rate: 65.9%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI http_header_field_manipulation: 5 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 7 nonfailed measurements (71.4% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-31
  - Confidence: 79%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=KE&test_name=http_header_field_manipulation&since=2026-10-31&until=2026-11-01)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI http_header_field_manipulation: 7 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 11 nonfailed measurements (63.6% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-30
  - Confidence: 75%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=KE&test_name=http_header_field_manipulation&since=2026-10-30&until=2026-10-31)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI http_header_field_manipulation: 10 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 16 nonfailed measurements (62.5% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-10-30
  - Confidence: 75%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=KE&test_name=http_header_field_manipulation&since=2026-10-30&until=2026-10-31)

## What we cannot say

- **Who caused it** — measurement data alone does not attribute the interference to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- **Intent** — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- **Which networks** — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- **The mechanism** — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- **A confirmed duration** — we report the observation window, not a verified start/stop of any block.
- **Sub-national scope** — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- **Independent corroboration** — fewer than two source labels appear in qualifying linked evidence; stored incident source labels may include quarantined OONI observations.

## Data Sources

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These source labels come from qualifying linked evidence. Historical incident source labels and quarantined observations are excluded; multiple labels alone do not establish independent corroboration.

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Sustained censorship in KE (2026-10) [KE-2026-0043]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/KE-2026-0043

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-11-05*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: KE-2026-0043*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/KE-2026-0043*