Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Websites Worldwide, Including Nigeria!
Reported by Marian Opeyemi Fasesan | Sele Media Africa
A widespread service disruption hit multiple global websites on Tuesday due to technical issues traced to Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure provider. The outage affected access to several platforms, including X (formerly Twitter), e-commerce sites, and banking services in parts of Nigeria and beyond.
“We are aware of the connectivity issues and are actively investigating,” Cloudflare said in an update on its status page.
Key Points:
- Downtime affected users across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
- Popular platforms such as X, Discord, and Shopify showed loading errors or were completely inaccessible.
- Cloudflare confirmed the issue was not a cyberattack but a network performance problem.
Why It Matters:
- Cloudflare supports millions of websites globally; its outages ripple across critical services.
- The incident highlights the internet’s reliance on a few infrastructure providers.
- Businesses experienced temporary loss of traffic and transaction failures.
What to Watch:
- Cloudflare’s technical breakdown and recovery timeline.
- Possible demand for greater redundancy in web infrastructure.
- Regulatory responses on internet resilience in key markets like Nigeria.
Sources:
- Cloudflare Status Page – Nov. 2025
- TechCrunch – “Cloudflare Outage Hits Global Websites”
- BBC – “Global Sites Disrupted by Major Internet Provider Issue”
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