Constitution of Sudan


The temporary de facto Constitution of Sudan is the Draft Constitutional Declaration, which was signed by representatives of the Transitional Military Council and the Forces of Freedom and Change alliance on 4 August 2019. This replaced the Interim National Constitution of the Republic of Sudan, 2005 adopted on 6 July 2005, which had been suspended on 11 April 2019 by Lt. Gen Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf in the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état.

Late twentieth century

The first permanent Constitution of Sudan was drafted in 1973. It incorporated the Addis Ababa Agreement ending the first Sudanese civil war. On 1 July 1998, a new constitution entered into force after being approved in a constitutional referendum.

Early twenty-first century

2005 Interim National Constitution

The Interim National Constitution of the Republic of Sudan, 2005 was adopted on 6 July 2005. The constitution was officially suspended following the April 2019 military coup which overthrew the country's President of 30 years Omar al-Bashir.

August 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration

On 5 July 2019, the Forces of Freedom and Change alliance, representing a wide range of citizens' groups, political opposition parties and armed opposition groups who had protested for many months since December 2018 via massive and sustained civil disobedience, agreed on a deal with the Transitional Military Council for a 39-month plan of recreating political institutions to return to a democratic system.
On 3 August 2019, the Political Agreement from July was complemented by a more extensive constitutional document, with 70 legal articles organised in 16 chapters, called the Draft Constitutional Declaration. The document was signed on 4 August 2019 by Ahmed Rabie of the FFC and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo of the TMC.
The Draft Constitutional Declaration defines the leadership, institutions and procedures for the 39-month transition period.