Cultural authorities denounce looting of Sudan’s National Museum

Khartoum, Apr 14 (Prensa Latina) Sudanese cultural authorities denounced the destruction and looting of the National Museum of Sudan by the paramilitaries who have controlled the city since the beginning of the conflict, it was learned here.

April 14, 2025
10:02

Gamal ElDeen Zain al-Abdeen, official of the National Corporation of Antiquities and Museums of Sudan, told local media that the so-called Rapid Support Forces (RSF) destroyed the most valuable elements of the exhibits especially what it has to do with the Sudanese man and his civilization.

The museum, located on Nile Avenue in the capital, is now in ruins, said al Abdeen, adding that the RSF destroyed everything and stole the gold pieces deposited in a security chamber, he said.

According to specialists, the exhibition contained from Paleolithic relics to artifacts from the different periods of its history.

Since mid-April 2023, this African nation has been plunged into an internal war, after contradictions over power issues flared up between the army chief Abdel Fatah al-Burhan and the leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

The fighting has already destroyed countless livelihoods to plunge the country into a complex spiral of hunger and death.

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