Drug and firearms law in Sudan: statutes on record and in force

Sudan, in Africa, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2018. It appears on neither FATF list. Its confirmed instrument on record is the Anti Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism Act. Where a field could not be sourced it is reported as unsourced rather than left to be inferred.

Tile cartogram of the covered jurisdictions with Sudan picked out — Fig. — Sudan in the covered set of 106 source and transit jurisdictions.

International framework

Sudan is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1993 and the most recent from 2018.

Instrument	Adopted	Ratified or acceded	Depositary reference
1988 Convention	1988	19 Nov 1993	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	10 Dec 2004	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	5 Sep 2014	Chapter XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol	2001	4 Oct 2018	Chapter XVIII-12-c

What each instrument obliges a party to do is set out once, per instrument, in the conventions reference. The dates above are what is specific to Sudan: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.

National legislation

Below are the confirmed instruments, given in their enacted titles. Where a register supplies a citation number it is carried through unchanged.

Anti Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism Act — A principal anti-money-laundering instrument, carrying the laundering and proceeds obligations common to the 1988 Convention, UNTOC and UNCAC into domestic law. Confirmed against cbos.gov.sd, checked 2026-07-30.

Enforcement authorities

No enforcement body is named in this record for Sudan. The bodies that would appear here are those identified on the jurisdiction's own government hosts — the police service, customs administration, prosecuting authority or dedicated drug agency, reachable under the .sd country-code domain. No page on those hosts named a body in terms that could be cited, so the field stays empty; an agency name attested only by an archive is not a source.

Ratification sequence

A count of four tells you less than the sequence that produced it. Sudan came to these instruments over 25 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1993 and ending with the Firearms Protocol in 2018. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNTOC at 4 years, the longest the Firearms Protocol at 17.

Sudan became a party to the 1988 Convention in 1993, 5 years after it was adopted — exactly the median lag across the jurisdictions in this dataset.

What sat in the gaps between them is the less obvious half of the record. For the 11 years between 1993 and 2004, Sudan was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC, the UNCAC or the Firearms Protocol. For the 10 years between 2004 and 2014, Sudan was bound by the 1988 Convention and the UNTOC but not yet by the UNCAC or the Firearms Protocol. Treaty obligations do not apply backwards, so the interval is a real limit on what the framework could reach at the time rather than an administrative detail.

On coverage, Sudan is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. Of the 53 Africa jurisdictions in this dataset, 6 sit under increased monitoring at present.

Financial-crime monitoring

As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Sudan is recorded as Not listed . Nothing here is a finding about Sudan's financial controls; it records only that neither statement names it. The process is described on the FATF grey list tracker.

Questions about drug and firearms law in Sudan

Which drug-control conventions has Sudan ratified?

All four: the 1988 Convention on 19 Nov 1993, the UNTOC on 10 Dec 2004, the UNCAC on 5 Sep 2014, the Firearms Protocol on 4 Oct 2018.

Is Sudan on the FATF grey list?

No. Sudan appears on neither the increased-monitoring list nor the call-for-action list in the FATF statements of 19 June 2026.

What national drug legislation is on record for Sudan?

Anti Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism Act, confirmed against cbos.gov.sd.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

Each instrument names its own. For Sudan that is cbos.gov.sd. Each link resolves to the register's own copy, not to a summary of it.

What is source tier A, and why is this record in it?

Tier A means a national instrument has been confirmed against an official register — for Sudan, 1 of them. The treaty dates and the listing status are separately sourced, so all three layers of this record carry a citation.

Why does the ratification date matter?

The date is the point from which the obligations bind. Sudan's earliest of these commitments dates from 1993, its most recent from 2018; the gap between them is a rough measure of how long the framework took to assemble.

Sources

Ratification dates: United Nations Treaty Collection, depositary status tables (chapters VI-19, XVIII-12, XVIII-14, XVIII-12-c). Checked 2026-07-29.
Listing status: FATF, Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring and High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action, 2026-06-19.
Anti Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism Act: cbos.gov.sd, checked 2026-07-30.