# Sustained censorship in ZW (2026-11)

**Country:** 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe (ZW)
**Date:** 2026-11-03
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** confirmed

## Summary

OONI detected 7 days of elevated network interference averaging 82.8% anomaly rate.

## Metrics

- Confidence: 75%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 7
- Anomaly Rate: 82.8%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 3 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 5 nonfailed measurements (60.0% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-11-03
  - Confidence: 74%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=ZW&test_name=signal&since=2026-11-03&until=2026-11-04)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 3 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 5 nonfailed measurements (60.0% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-11-03
  - Confidence: 74%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=ZW&test_name=tor&since=2026-11-03&until=2026-11-04)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI web_connectivity: 48 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 81 nonfailed measurements (59.3% blocked; 31 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-11-03
  - Confidence: 74%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=ZW&test_name=web_connectivity&since=2026-11-03&until=2026-11-04)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 1 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 1 nonfailed measurements (100.0% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-11-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=ZW&test_name=signal&since=2026-11-03&until=2026-11-04)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI whatsapp: 2 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 2 nonfailed measurements (100.0% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-11-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=ZW&test_name=whatsapp&since=2026-11-03&until=2026-11-04)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 1 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 1 nonfailed measurements (100.0% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-11-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=ZW&test_name=tor&since=2026-11-03&until=2026-11-04)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 1 anomaly + 0 confirmed / 1 nonfailed measurements (100.0% blocked; 0 failed)
  - Observed: 2026-11-03
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=ZW&test_name=tor&since=2026-11-03&until=2026-11-04)

## 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 ZW (2026-11) [ZW-2026-0114]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/ZW-2026-0114

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*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-11-04*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: ZW-2026-0114*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/ZW-2026-0114*