{"id":198032,"date":"2025-05-14T00:22:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T22:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-media-in-ruins-as-war-silences-the-airwaves\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T00:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T22:22:24","slug":"sudans-media-in-ruins-as-war-silences-the-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-media-in-ruins-as-war-silences-the-airwaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s Media in Ruins As War Silences the Airwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Khartoum \u2014 <em>Two years into Sudan&#8217;s devastating civil war, the country&#8217;s media landscape lies in ruins. Institutions once alive with voices, ideas and community now stand gutted, their broadcasts silenced, their archives lost.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\">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&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505120129.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khartoum \u2014 Two years into Sudan&#8217;s devastating civil war, the country&#8217;s media landscape lies in ruins. Institutions once alive with voices, ideas and community now stand gutted, their broadcasts silenced, their archives lost. In Khartoum, the destruction is plain to see. Once the centre of Sudanese journalism, the capital is now home to hollowed-out offices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":198033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661982:cfffe4a50e8acc48d6fbd20c28c8fe82:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,31377,4959,257,21802,23810,254,1613,8105,6618],"class_list":["post-198032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airwaves","tag-media","tag-news","tag-ruins","tag-silences","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661982:cfffe4a50e8acc48d6fbd20c28c8fe82:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}