Employees of Sudan state television said that the decision was made to stop the propaganda broadcasting by a paramilitary force engaged in a conflict with the army to control the capital.
The army denied the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces' claims that it had taken control of state TV and other vital sites as violence broke out around Khartoum on Saturday.
By Sunday, it appeared the army was winning the battle in Khartoum.
The RSF entered the central state broadcaster headquarters in Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum, and used radio networks to broadcast content supporting the RSF, according to state media personnel who spoke anonymously.
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After hours of repetitive replays of recorded content, the primary state TV channel's transmission went black on Sunday, according to Reuter's reporters in Khartoum and numerous other towns outside the country. Also disabled was state radio.
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has urged Sudan's warring parties to stop hostilities immediately.
President William Ruto encouraged IGAD representatives to take a solid stand to end the war and restore peace to the country. The presidents of South Sudan, Uganda, Djibouti, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia, and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda also attended the emergency meeting.
The leaders urged that the generals of the Transitional Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, halt the violence and return to the negotiating table.
The President discussed the deteriorating security in Sudan on Sunday during a virtual meeting with IGAD Heads of State.
Following confrontations in which dozens of combatants and at least 56 civilians were killed, Sudan's military conducted airstrikes on a paramilitary force's base close to the capital on Sunday to retake control over the nation.
Eyewitnesses stated late Saturday that the military base belonged to the government's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Omdurman, which borders Khartoum's capital.
