Information Security and Data Recovery – The Face of Truth – ✍️ Ibrahim Shaqlawi
The current Sudanese scene is surrounded by complex challenges and ambiguous structural crises that affect state sovereignty and the independence of its national decision-making process. In these circumstances, some important news sometimes passes without receiving the attention and consideration it deserves.
These include what has recently circulated in the media about the restoration and operation of the National Data Center in Khartoum, news that reflects a major transformation in the structure of the Sudanese state and perhaps a defining sovereign moment in its complex path towards restoring its security cohesion.
The announcement from the Minister of Digital Transformation and Communications, Eng. Ahmed Al-Dardiri, of the restart of the National Center after having completed its technical rehabilitation, on an area estimated at 1,300 square meters, and having equipped it with cloud computing systems, data security and artificial intelligence, cannot be considered as a simple administrative success, but rather as an indication of a change in the official mentality of the State, which has begun – it seems – to rethink the tools of control, the keys to decision-making and the starting points. Rebuild for the next step.
The National Data Center represents not simply digital infrastructure, but rather a vital nerve of the body of modern state and a governance tool for reorganizing the public sphere, controlling institutional and procedural processes and restoring central prestige. A fundamental question arises here: what does it mean for the state to have the capacity to manage its data?
In the Sudanese case, the answer goes beyond the technical aspect to address the essence of politics, sovereignty and governance, and moves from the domain of software to the domain of power.
Owning data means possessing the tools necessary to govern and control resources, plan development and protect national decisions from dependence, especially in an environment of conflicting ambitions and power struggles through the portal of information security.
Despite the war conditions and the challenges of restoring infrastructure, the relevant ministry managed to fight a different type of battle: silent, non-military, but decisive. This is the battle for the right to digital existence, through which the State has restored its institutional pulse and sent a national message that Sudan, although it has begun to be besieged by pressures, is still present in its basic sovereign structure, and that recovery is not a theoretical dream, but rather a realistic path that begins with the restoration of management tools.
The return of data centers does not only mean operating archiving and transaction systems, but also reviving the pulse of the state itself and giving it the opportunity to organize its priorities from within, far from the chaos of war.
Today, digital management is not a luxury, but rather an existential condition for the sustainability and cohesion of states, particularly in moments of bureaucratic disintegration and decline of global authority to regulate services and information security.
In our time, data has become an integral part of national security, just as important as borders, weapons or the economy. A country that loses its digital keys becomes vulnerable to hacking or domination.
Therefore, the restoration of the National Data Center means that Sudan has regained one of the most important tools of sovereignty, governance and organizational and management capacity.
At the regional and international levels, digital structures have become the arena of silent competition between great powers. Competition is less noisy than cannons, more influential than diplomacy. With Sudan located at the heart of a regional geography full of ambitions and challenges, its possession of its digital infrastructure gives it political and security fortification, placing it in an equal position vis-à-vis international actors, while creating an attractive environment for investment and development partnerships.
This transformation takes on additional importance because it constitutes a fundamental condition for any future political process. It is impossible to imagine fair elections or a reliable democratic transition without protected databases and transparent digital systems. The absence of a solid information structure amounts to reproducing chance and chaos and emptying the political process of its content.
The restoration of the National Data Center is not just an administrative act, but rather a sovereign act that reflects a new awareness of the relationships between power and knowledge, and between state and data. This is a step towards reducing information fragility, which represents one of the most dangerous manifestations of collapse. A State that loses control of its data gradually loses its capacity to protect its citizens, its institutions and its legal entity.
Therefore, this event, as simple as it may seem to some, is a founding moment on which we can build. It reflects an internal will which attempts to emerge from oppression and disappointment and to re-establish a serious national project based on the tools of the time and the requirements of administrative modernity.
According to #Face_of_Truth, when Khartoum regains its data center, it regains its sovereign conscience and its digital pulse, and declares that chaos is not an imposed destiny, but rather a condition that can be overcome with will and organization. These digital measures could be the first sign of a long road to recovery, re-discussing the future of the State from the point of view of knowledge, organization and digital sovereignty, and not from the point of view of weapons and regional and international blackmail.
May you always be well.
October 14, 2025 AD (email protected)
