Rights
A 2019 transitional document interrupted by a coup and then by war
The 2019 Constitutional Document, amended to incorporate the 2020 Juba Peace Agreement, was the transitional framework after Bashir's removal. The October 2021 coup displaced it and the war that began in April 2023 has made the operative constitutional position impossible to state.
Key rules
- Jurisdiction — Nominally unitary with federal states. Institutional control has been contested between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces since April 2023.
Governing law
- Constitutional Charter for the Transitional Period 2019as amended 2020
- Juba Peace Agreement 2020
- Interim National Constitution 2005 — the preceding framework
In practice
The texts are recorded because they were genuinely enacted, but this entry does not assert a functioning constitutional order. The 2019 Constitutional Charter created a sovereignty council, a civilian cabinet and a transitional legislative council that was never fully seated, and provided for a Constitutional Court that was not effectively constituted. The October 2021 coup removed the civilian prime minister and suspended key provisions. Since April 2023 the country has been in a full internal armed conflict between the SAF and the RSF, with rival claims to state authority, destruction of court infrastructure in Khartoum and displacement of the judiciary. Any statement that Sudan's constitution currently operates in a particular way would be unsupportable from open sources, which is why this carries a research rather than a reviewed stamp.