{"id":56383,"date":"2025-10-28T00:07:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=56383"},"modified":"2025-10-28T00:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:07:41","slug":"where-are-you-sukhoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/where-are-you-sukhoi\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are You, Sukhoi?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Sabah Makki<\/strong><\/p>\n

As El-Fasher endures a treacherous assault by the militias, with hearts trembling and social media boiling over with rumors while TV channels echo with misleading reports, the voice of the state is conspicuously absent in one of the most crucial battles \u2014 the battle for awareness and information. The streets are speaking, yet the media is silent. The Ministry of Information has become a faint shadow at a time when the word is as vital as the weapon.
\nWhere is \u201cSukhoi,\u201d the commander of the Ministry of Information?<\/p>\n

At a time when El-Fasher faces its 266th attack since the outbreak of war \u2014 as its people display extraordinary resilience \u2014 a painful truth unfolds before our eyes: a media failure so severe it exposes a national crisis on the state\u2019s most vital front \u2014 the front of awareness.
\nThe Ministry of Information is silent. The official news agency, SUNA, is absent.
\nThe streets speak, but the media is mute \u2014 and that is the real tragedy.<\/p>\n

Where is the ministry in the battle for El-Fasher? Where is the minister on the front of public awareness?
\nWhere are the statements, the strategy, the response?
\nWhere is the official voice that refutes militia lies, leads the international narrative, strengthens the home front, and sends messages of unity and resilience to the people \u2014 facing a flood of lies, toxic propaganda, and orchestrated disinformation campaigns funded by foreign agendas?<\/p>\n

Where is the ministry when foreign media outlets broadcast militia propaganda from inside Khartoum, spreading their poison unchecked \u2014 while the propaganda machine of Abu Dhabi\u2019s regime and its local proxies from the remnants of the \u201cQaht\u201d coalition, \u201cSumoud,\u201d and domestic collaborators flood the airwaves with deceit and noise?<\/p>\n

It is shameful that today, the truth is told only through videos from the fighters on the frontlines and posts by patriotic journalists \u2014 while the very institutions entrusted with leading public awareness drown in a suspicious silence. Were it not for those honorable voices, the public would have been consumed by the lies and fabrications spewed by Abu Dhabi\u2019s propaganda networks and their so-called \u201crevolutionary\u201d fronts.<\/p>\n

Sukhoi \u2014 the nickname the people gave you when you spoke like a missile, fierce and fearless \u2014 where are you now?
\nYou once vowed to be the shield of truth, yet now you have become a faded shadow in a sky clouded by lies.<\/p>\n

We know you are not the official government spokesperson, but you head the Ministry of Information. It is your duty to organize the flow of information, coordinate institutions, and unify the message. Yet there is nothing on television, no statement from SUNA, no post from the ministry\u2019s page. The country is drowning in disinformation, and official media watches in silence \u2014 as if the catastrophe were none of its concern.<\/p>\n

The information space has become a battlefield where lies are launched via satellites, while the ministry remains sunk in apathy and detachment from the people\u2019s pulse.
\nCitizens in areas deprived of internet access find nothing on state TV, while foreign channels bombard them with propaganda. Sudanese abroad hear the same distorted narrative from international outlets that polish lies with eloquence. Millions of dollars are being poured into the militias\u2019 disinformation machine, while the legitimate state fights its battle in silence \u2014 as if awareness were a luxury, not a national necessity.
\nThus, the silence at home amplifies the noise abroad, until lies begin to speak in the nation\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

Is it conceivable that patriotic citizens and youth on Facebook and social media are faster in delivering the truth than a whole ministry?
\nIf you lack a media operations room, a crisis plan, or an emergency team \u2014 do you expect Facebook activists to run your ministry for you?
\nLook around you, Sukhoi: in times of national peril, countries unify their media \u2014 broadcasting live updates nonstop, suspending entertainment, and dedicating every frequency to the national cause.
\nThat is how nations confront danger \u2014 by mobilizing their media just as they mobilize their armies.
\nBut here, every outlet acts alone, while the very ministry meant to lead the information front merely watches from behind the glass, as if it were a guest, not the host.<\/p>\n

Modern wars are not fought with bullets alone, but with words and narratives.
\nHe who fails to grasp that media is the first front of victory has lost the battle before it begins.
\nFighters battle with weapons, citizens with words \u2014 but the ministry fights with silence, as if absence were a strategy.<\/p>\n

Today, it is the people who lead the battle for awareness \u2014 the fighter documenting from the heart of the fire, the patriotic journalist countering lies with truth, the young men and women who turned their phones into trenches of consciousness.
\nThey are the real Sukhois.
\nThe ministry, however, chose silence over struggle \u2014 and with its silence, the state\u2019s voice and prestige have vanished from the media sky.<\/p>\n

Mr. Minister, El-Fasher is bleeding. The nation is fighting.
\nThe people are waiting not for your photo \u2014 but for your stance.
\nHe who hides in wartime does not deserve the honor of office, and he who stays silent amid deception becomes complicit through his silence.
\nMedia is not an accessory of the state; it is its first shield and final weapon.<\/p>\n

El-Fasher endures.
\nThe people expose.
\nAnd state media stutters.
\nWho, then, leads the consciousness? The people \u2014 not the ministry.
\nWho writes history? Reality \u2014 not the absent press releases.<\/p>\n

And until you return, Sukhoi, as the force you once promised to be, the question will hang in the air like a sword:
\nHave your engines gone silent \u2014 or have you chosen to soar above the dust, in a sky without direction, to avoid facing the truth, leaving the battlefield to your foes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Sabah Makki As El-Fasher endures a treacherous assault by the militias, with hearts trembling and social media boiling over with rumors while TV channels echo with misleading reports, the voice of the state is conspicuously absent in one of the most crucial battles \u2014 the battle for awareness and information. The streets are speaking, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56384,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56383\/revisions\/56384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}