There was a marked drop in government-directed shutdowns in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to the latest iteration of Cloudflare’s quarterly Internet Disruptions report.

The report covers disruptions occurring in the three months up to December 31.

Only one government-directed shutdown was recorded in this period. This was in Tanzania, whose government cut access to the Internet in late October following violent protests during a presidential election.

Although Cloudflare also recorded no government-directed shutdowns in the first quarter of last year, the second and third quarters saw blackouts in Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

In terms of disruptions caused by governments at war, Russian drone strikes on Ukraine in December disrupted traffic by damaging warehouses and energy infrastructure.

But cable cuts and damage to submarine cables did cause major disruptions to Haiti, Pakistan, Cameroon, and the Dominican Republic.

A separate incident in the Dominican Republic relating to a transmission line outage also impacted traffic in the county, and Kenya was impacted by a similar outage that saw interruptions last for nearly four hours.

Cyclones also caused outages in Jamaica, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia.

Cloudflare, which is a content delivery network and Internet service business, also experienced two outages in this period.

The first outage on November 18 took out a number of services, including ChatGPT, X, Bet365, Grindr, League of Legends, as well as DCD and its sister site SDxCentral.

The second outage occurred on December 5, impacting approximately “28 percent of all HTTP traffic served by Cloudflare.”