Alcohol in Sudan

Alcohol in Sudan has been broadly illegal since 1983, when the single-party Sudan Socialist Union passed the Liquor Prohibition Bill, making illegal the manufacture, sale, and consumption of any form of alcohol for the Muslim citizens of the country.[1]

Colonial government

During the period of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899-1956), the British colonial government enacted several pieces of legislation limiting alcohol in the country:

References

  1. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (15 October 2013). Islamic Law and Society in the Sudan. Routledge. pp. 281–. ISBN 978-1-134-54035-8.
  2. Ahmad Alawad Sikainga (22 July 2010). Slaves into Workers: Emancipation and Labor in Colonial Sudan. University of Texas Press. pp. 160–. ISBN 978-0-292-78584-7.
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