{"id":230187,"date":"2026-04-12T02:46:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-government-warns-of-impersonation-accounts-targeting-armed-forces-in-disinformation-campaigns\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:46:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:46:59","slug":"sudan-government-warns-of-impersonation-accounts-targeting-armed-forces-in-disinformation-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-government-warns-of-impersonation-accounts-targeting-armed-forces-in-disinformation-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Government Warns of Impersonation Accounts Targeting Armed Forces in Disinformation Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Khartoum \u2014 The Media Monitoring Office at the Ministry of Culture, Information, Antiquities and Tourism has issued a warning over the growing activity of coordinated online groups operating on Facebook and X platforms, impersonating supporters of the Sudanese Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">In a statement, the Office cautioned that these accounts exploit state symbols, including the national emblem (the Secretary Bird), the Sudanese flag, and imagery associated with the 70th anniversary of independence, in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604090331.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 The Media Monitoring Office at the Ministry of Culture, Information, Antiquities and Tourism has issued a warning over the growing activity of coordinated online groups operating on Facebook and X platforms, impersonating supporters of the Sudanese Armed Forces. In a statement, the Office cautioned that these accounts exploit state symbols, including the national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":230188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[7516,258,256,9663,11972,26753,5097,6427,16767,257,254,4708,1613,15084,6853],"class_list":["post-230187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-accounts","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed","tag-campaigns","tag-disinformation","tag-forces","tag-government","tag-impersonation","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-targeting","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230187","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=230187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}