Egyptian Media Supports Sudan
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Salah Omar Al-Sheikh
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The Egyptian position on the war in Sudan supports Sudan, its national institutions and its armed forces – there is no outbidding in it, nor is it driven by interests, but rather a strategic position governed by the joint destiny, and the eternal relationship between the two peoples since the dawn of history until today. This was confirmed by President Sisi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and every Egyptian official who spoke clearly confirmed this. Consequently, this is reflected in the strong relationship between the institutions in the two countries, particularly between the two armies that were brought together by fighting in the wars that Egypt fought against Israel in 1967 and the War of Attrition in the 1973 war.
So the institutions do not swim against the current of the state and the people, but rather reflect its orientations and vision, and therefore the media does not deviate from the rest of the institutions and the state’s orientations. Sincere the first day of the war, the Egyptian media supported the armed forces in repelling the militia rebellion. This is why Cairo News Channel called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) a militia, and it still continues to broadcast the official news of the Sudanese state and the Sudanese army; Rather, it visited Portsudan as part of the Sudanese-Egyptian media delegation, and met with President Al-Burhan and Sudanese officials.
As for Egyptian journalists and media professionals, many of them wrote in support of Sudan and the armed forces; I remember Sabah Musa, Ayman Abdel-Majeed, editor-in-chief of Rose Al-Youssef portal and newspaper, Asmaa Al-Husseini and others.
The Sudanese-Egyptian media delegation, led by colleague Al-Hindi Ezz El-Din, comprised the editor-in-chief of Al-Akhbar, Osama Saeed, and a representative of Cairo News. They reflected well the truth and the violations and crimes committed in Sudan by the terrorist insurgent RSF militia.
On the Sudanese Echoes platform, we met with the politician and writer Salah Abu Halima, the former assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, whose position was clear and supportive of Sudan and its army, and he expressed this through articles published in Al-Ahram and Sudanese Echoes.
We also met with the parliamentarian and media professional Mustafa Bakri, editor-in-chief of Al-Usbu, who clearly expressed the eternal relationship between the two countries and his support for legitimacy in Sudan.
There is not enough space to mention all those who wrote, addressed and strongly supported the Sudanese issue, as there is no room for outbidding in the position supporting Sudan, its people and its armed forces. Therefore, we will not judge the Egyptian media supporting Sudan, its people and its armed forces with one opinion of the media figure Amr Adeeb, which is not based on correct information, but rather a false impression and interpretation of the meaning of the armed forces crossing a bridge, as the Sudanese armed forces carried out the largest ground operation in Sudan since the outbreak of the war; not only in Khartoum but in all hubs; in Al-Gadarif hub in the east and Sennar in the south, and Darfur hub in the west as well as in more than one area, Al-Fashir, Mellit and the Egyptian-Libyan border triangle, and near the Chadian border. It is not crossing a bridge, but rather the crossing of forces from defense to a sweeping attack and victory over the criminal militia.