{"id":20116668,"date":"2025-05-11T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/?p=20116668"},"modified":"2025-05-12T02:39:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T00:39:45","slug":"sudans-media-in-ruins-as-war-silences-the-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudans-media-in-ruins-as-war-silences-the-airwaves","title":{"rendered":"Sudan\u2019s media in ruins as war silences the airwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two years into Sudan\u2019s devastating civil war, the country\u2019s media landscape lies in ruins. Institutions once alive with voices, ideas and community now stand gutted, their broadcasts silenced, their archives lost.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Khartoum, the destruction is plain to see. Once the centre of Sudanese journalism, the capital is now home to hollowed-out offices and shattered studios. The only exception is the national radio and television building, seized by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces due to its strategic and symbolic importance. The rest have been stripped bare, reduced to silent shells that echo the collapse of a once vibrant press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that the Sudanese Armed Forces have regained parts of the city, the extent of the damage to the country\u2019s media institutions is coming into focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scenes are grim. Equipment stolen or burned. Archives erased. Broadcast towers flattened. Journalists, long the custodians of truth, have become casualties of a conflict that has scorched even the voice of the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hala 96 FM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHala Radio was the pulse of the Sudanese youth,\u201d Yasser Abu Shamla, director of the station, told Radio Dabanga, as he viewed images of its wrecked headquarters for the first time. \u201cThe loss is searing and painful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the war, Hala 96 FM stood as one of Sudan\u2019s most popular stations, powered by state-of-the-art digital infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its studios buzzed with activity, equipped with professional sound mixers, high-capacity servers, rare audio libraries and a software archive chronicling modern Sudanese culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll of it,\u201d said Abu Shamla, \u201cwas lost to flames and looting.\u201d He confirmed that the station\u2019s main transmitter, audio and video podcast systems, computer network and countless devices were either destroyed or stolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initial estimates place the financial loss at more than 350,000 US dollars.\u201cBut it was more than money,\u201d he added. \u201cIt was our voice, our presence in the lives of thousands. Now, there is only silence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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