The Sudanese Journalists Syndicate has warned of a real danger to radio and television libraries as fighting approaches one of the oldest radio and television stations in the Arab and African worlds.
The Sudanese Journalists Syndicate said yesterday that it had received information indicating that fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces was approaching radio and television buildings in the city of Omdurman, west of the capital Khartoum.
The union appealed to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and all organizations working in the field of preserving tangible and human heritage to intervene with the warring parties.
It added that the radio and television libraries contain the precious Sudanese heritage, calling on all these organizations to intervene with the warring parties to save this heritage and protect it from loss, based on their responsibility.
The statement stressed that the RSF has been turning radio and television buildings into detention centers for months, which increases the risk of destroying or damaging an archive approaching a hundred years old and representing a political, cultural and social heritage of the entire Sudanese nation.
And that “the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate rings the alarm bell for the second time since the outbreak of the war on the fifteenth of April of last year 2023 Alert to the potential dangers, which threaten this legacy”.
For several weeks, the army has been advancing in Omdurman continuously, taking control of the Omdurman market and several areas in the downtown area, while continuing its attempts to link its forces in the Corps of Engineers in the south and Wadi Sedna in the north.
