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Sudan Online Casino Guide

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Sudan prohibits gambling in all its forms. Section 80 of the Criminal Act 1991 makes it an offence to gamble, to run a game or activity involving gambling, or to keep a house or place for that purpose, and it defines gambling to include lotteries and all games of chance. There is no gambling regulator, no licensing system and, on the sources reviewed for this guide, no lawful gambling operator of any kind, whether land-based or online. Since April 2023 the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been engaged in an armed conflict, with territory divided between them according to news reports, and targeted UN, US, EU and UK sanctions restrict dealings with listed persons and entities.

Key points

Section 80 of the Criminal Act 1991 punishes gambling, and running a gambling activity or place, with imprisonment of up to one year, a fine, or (in the published English translations) flogging of up to 25 lashes.
The prohibition applies to the player as well as to the organiser: the offence covers “whoever gambles”. A third offence under sections 78 to 80 carries up to three years’ imprisonment.
Reforms published in July 2020 by the transitional government removed several 1991 provisions. Press reports said lashing had been forbidden as an official punishment, but the US State Department reported that flogging remained a penalty for some offences; a Sudanese law firm describes the amendments as eliminating whipping as a penalty with two exceptions, one of them section 81 (repeat offences, including gambling), where the eighty-lash penalty was replaced by a reference to the hadd penalty. The amended wording of section 80 could not be obtained.
The US lifted its comprehensive trade sanctions on Sudan with effect from 12 October 2017 and rescinded Sudan’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism with effect from 14 December 2020. Targeted UN, US, EU and UK sanctions remain in force.
Sudan is not on the FATF lists of jurisdictions under increased monitoring or subject to a call for action (June 2026). No national responsible gambling or self-exclusion scheme exists.

Last reviewed: 14 October 2026.

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Historical development

Modern Sudanese gambling law is a product of the Islamisation of the criminal law from 1983 onwards. According to the Library of Congress country study of Sudan, in September 1983 President Jaafar Nimeiri “issued several decrees, known as the September Laws, that made the sharia the law of the land”. In November 1983 the People’s Assembly approved implementing legislation without debate, including “a new penal code based on hudud“, the fixed punishments of classical Islamic law. The enforcement of hudud penalties provoked widespread opposition, and after Nimeiri was overthrown in April 1985 the courts suspended the harshest of them (Library of Congress, Sudan: A Country Study). Neither the country study nor any other source we found describes how gambling was treated under the 1983 code.

The 1983 code was replaced by the Criminal Act 1991, adopted under the government that took power in 1989. The Act states that it was passed under the third constitutional decree of 1989, and section 2 provides that “the penal Code 1983 shall be repealed” (Criminal Act 1991, English translation). South Sudan, which seceded in 2011, is a separate jurisdiction and is not covered by this guide.

After the removal of President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, a civilian-led transitional government amended parts of the 1991 Act in 2020 (see below). The military took control of the transitional government in October 2021, and fighting between the SAF and the RSF began in April 2023. None of these changes created any lawful form of gambling.

Legal framework

The Criminal Act 1991, section 80

The central provision is section 80, headed “Gambling or running a gambling place” in one English translation and “Gambling or running a place for gambling” in another. In the translation published on ecoi.net, section 80(1) reads:

“Whoever gambles or runs any game or activity involving gambling or runs a house or a place for this purpose or abets the same shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or with fine or with flogging not exceeding twenty five lashes and the house or place may be closed or confiscated if owned by the offender or used with the knowledge of the owner.”

Section 80(2) provides that “gambling includes lotteries and all games of chance” (ecoi.net translation). The translation hosted by the University of Nottingham’s Criminal Justice and Death Penalty database gives materially the same text, using “whipping” in place of “flogging” and defining gambling to include “the drawing of lottery, and any other game of luck” (CJAD translation). Neither is an official version; the Arabic text is authoritative.

Three features matter for online gambling:

Breadth. The definition covers lotteries and all games of chance. Nothing in the translated text limits it to physical premises.
Players and organisers alike. The opening words, “whoever gambles”, make participation itself an offence, alongside running a game, keeping a place for gambling, and abetting.
No licensing exception. The section contains no exemption for licensed or state-run gambling, and we found no other statute creating one.

Repeat offenders

Section 81 provides that a person who commits any of the offences in sections 78 (drinking alcohol and nuisance), 79 and 80 “for the third time” is liable to imprisonment for up to three years, flogging of up to eighty lashes, or both, and to confiscation of the means of transport and instruments used in the offence (Criminal Act 1991, s. 81).

The 2020 amendments

On 13 July 2020 the transitional government published amendments to the Criminal Law Act 1991, the Criminal Procedure Act 1991 and the National Security Act 2010 (REDRESS, 2020). The main instrument was the Miscellaneous Amendments (Fundamental Rights and Freedoms) Act 2020. According to the US State Department’s 2020 religious freedom report, it repealed the death penalty for apostasy, repealed the prohibition on non-Muslims drinking alcohol, and rescinded public-order provisions on indecent dress and public morality (US State Department, 2020 International Religious Freedom Report: Sudan). Al Jazeera reported that the new laws had “forbidden lashing” as an official punishment and that public flogging would end (Al Jazeera, July 2020). The State Department report, however, states only that flogging was removed as a punishment for blasphemy, and records that flogging remained the penalty for some other offences, such as adultery by an unmarried person.

None of these sources mentions gambling. Two later sources do. A statement by 29 Sudanese civil-society groups, published by the SIHA Network in August 2020, lists section 80 (gambling) and section 81 (habitually committing certain offences) among the 35 provisions of the Criminal Act amended in 2020 (SIHA Network, August 2020). The Sudanese Commercial Law Office, a law firm, wrote in October 2022 that the amendments eliminated whipping as a penalty with two exceptions: adultery under section 146, which was not amended, and section 81, in which the words “or with whipping not exceeding eighty lashes, or with both” were replaced by “without prejudice to the Hadd penalty” (Sudanese Commercial Law Office, 2022). Neither source reproduces the amended wording of section 80, and we could not locate a consolidated, post-2020 text of the Criminal Act. We therefore cannot state the current penalty for a first or second gambling offence with certainty, or whether later governments have changed the provision again. The penalties described above reflect the 1991 text.

Regulator and licensing model

Sudan follows a prohibition model: a legal system in which gambling is banned outright rather than licensed or run as a state monopoly. As a result there is no gambling regulator, no licence category for casinos, betting, lotteries or online gambling, and no published register of operators. We found no source identifying a national lottery or any state-owned gambling operator, consistent with section 80(2) bringing lotteries within the offence.

The conflict adds uncertainty about enforcement, though not about the law itself. As of April 2026, Al Jazeera reported that the army controls “the northern, central and eastern states, as well as the capital”, while “the RSF controls Darfur and large parts of the three Kordofan states”; an RSF-led coalition announced an alternative government in July 2025, and the government officially returned to Khartoum in January 2026 after operating from Port Sudan (Al Jazeera, April 2026). We found no source describing the gambling laws applied in areas under RSF control.

Online gambling and enforcement

No online gambling service is, or can be, licensed in Sudan. Because section 80 is framed in general terms, offering online casino games, betting or lotteries to people in Sudan, and taking part in them from Sudan, falls within the prohibition on the face of the translated text. We found no Sudanese court decision applying section 80 specifically to online gambling.

Website blocking

Sudan has a long-standing system of internet filtering. In 2014 Sudan Tribune reported that the National Telecommunications Corporation listed the categories of website it blocked as including “drugs, weapons, alcohol, gambling and insults against Islam”, and that it planned to step up blocking (Sudan Tribune, 2014). In 2020 the Telecommunication and Post Regulation Authority (TPRA) issued a regulation on content filtering and website blocking under the TPRA law of 2018; Global Voices’ analysis of it lists 13 blocked categories and a catch-all allowing the authority to add others, but does not mention gambling expressly (Global Voices Advox, 2022). We could not verify whether gambling sites are currently blocked in practice.

Payments and the banking system

Even apart from the criminal law, the banking system offers few practical channels for gambling payments. A humanitarian analysis by ACAPS in August 2023 found that “the majority of banks remain closed”, particularly in Khartoum, that cash reserves were being depleted, that bank-to-bank transfers were largely disrupted, and that domestic payments relied heavily on a single mobile banking application, itself hampered by “slow and disrupted internet connectivity” (ACAPS, 2023). We did not find a more recent comprehensive official assessment.

In anti-money-laundering terms, Sudan’s international standing is currently unremarkable. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the intergovernmental standard-setter for anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing controls, removed Sudan from its monitoring process on 23 October 2015, citing “significant progress” (FATF, October 2015). Sudan does not appear on the FATF’s June 2026 list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, often called the “grey list” (South Sudan, a separate country, does), nor on its list of high-risk jurisdictions subject to a call for action (FATF, June 2026).

International sanctions

Sanctions do not regulate gambling, but they shape which financial channels are open. As of October 2026:

United States. The comprehensive US trade embargo was lifted when sections 1 and 2 of Executive Order 13067 and all of Executive Order 13412 were revoked with effect from 12 October 2017; the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations were removed from the Code of Federal Regulations on 29 June 2018. US persons are therefore no longer broadly prohibited from transactions with Sudan. Targeted sanctions continue under Executive Order 13400 (2006), relating to Darfur, and Executive Order 14098 of 4 May 2023, which addresses the destabilisation of Sudan; OFAC recorded Sudan-related designations as recently as 26 June 2026 (OFAC, Sudan and Darfur Sanctions).
State sponsor of terrorism. Sudan, designated in August 1993, was removed from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism by a rescission effective 14 December 2020. OFAC later confirmed that “financial transactions with the Government of Sudan are no longer prohibited” under the terrorism-list regulations (OFAC final rule, May 2021).
United Nations. Resolution 1591 (2005) established an arms embargo, travel ban and asset freeze relating to Darfur, overseen by a Security Council committee (UN Security Council 1591 Committee). Resolution 2791, adopted on 12 September 2025, renewed the measures for one year and extended the Panel of Experts mandate until 12 October 2026 (Security Council Report, S/RES/2791). Resolution 2828 of 11 September 2026 was a technical extension of the measures until 9 October 2026 and of the Panel mandate until 9 November 2026 (Security Council Report, S/RES/2828). On 8 October 2026 the Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2830, a further two-month technical rollover extending the measures until 11 December 2026 and the Panel of Experts mandate until 11 January 2027 (Security Council Report, What’s In Blue; Sudan Tribune, 9 October 2026).
European Union. The EU framework under Council Decision (CFSP) 2023/2135 of 9 October 2023 provides for asset freezes, an EU-wide travel ban and a prohibition on making funds available to listed persons and entities. Listings have covered entities linked to both the SAF and the RSF (Council of the EU, January 2024; Council of the EU, September 2025). Council Decision (CFSP) 2026/2261 of 9 October 2026 amended the framework; its EUR-Lex record gives an end-of-validity date of 10 October 2027 (EUR-Lex).
United Kingdom. The Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 implement the UN regime and provide for UK designations; HM Treasury and the FCDO recorded new designations on 5 February, 29 April and 16 July 2026 (GOV.UK, Sudan designations).

These regimes are targeted rather than comprehensive, but they require banks and payment providers to screen transactions. This summary is not legal advice.

Position of players

Sudan is one of the jurisdictions in which the player commits an offence. Section 80 applies to “whoever gambles”, without distinguishing between staking at a local game and staking with a foreign online operator. The penalties are those set out above; the 2020 reforms are reported to have removed whipping as a general penalty, but the amended wording of section 80 could not be verified.

We found no public record of prosecutions of individuals for online gambling, and no official statistics on gambling prosecutions, so the level of enforcement cannot be described either way. Playing for money from Sudan is not lawful under the Criminal Act, a foreign operator licence does not change this, and players have no local complaints route if an offshore operator withholds winnings.

Taxation

Because all gambling is prohibited, Sudan has no gambling tax, no licence fees and no published gambling revenue figures. We found no source on the tax treatment of winnings; confiscation under sections 80 and 81 is a criminal penalty, not a tax.

Consumer protection and responsible gambling

No national responsible gambling scheme exists in Sudan. There is no self-exclusion register, no regulator setting operator duties, and we found no dedicated gambling helpline or specialist treatment service. People affected by gambling may find general guidance in our responsible gambling guide.

Recent and upcoming developments

UN sanctions renewal. After Resolution 2791 (September 2025), the Security Council adopted a one-month technical extension in Resolution 2828 (September 2026); Resolution 2830 (8 October 2026) added a further two-month rollover, extending the measures to 11 December 2026 and the Panel of Experts mandate to 11 January 2027.
EU and UK designations. According to EUR-Lex, the EU extended its framework in October 2026 and the UK added designations in 2026, including 11 on 16 July 2026.
Legislation. As of October 2026 we found no bill or decree proposing to legalise any form of gambling.

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The listings below are generated automatically from our casino database. No operator is licensed to offer gambling in Sudan, and under section 80 of the Criminal Act 1991 gambling, including lotteries and all games of chance, is a criminal offence for players as well as organisers. The listings must not be read as an indication that playing is lawful. International sanctions also restrict payments and dealings involving listed persons and entities connected with Sudan, and banking services in the country remain severely disrupted.

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Sudan Online Casino Guide

Key points

Online casinos for Sudan

Historical development

Legal framework

The Criminal Act 1991, section 80

Repeat offenders

The 2020 amendments

Regulator and licensing model

Online gambling and enforcement

Website blocking

Payments and the banking system

International sanctions

Position of players

Taxation

Consumer protection and responsible gambling

Recent and upcoming developments

Casino listings for players in Sudan

Related country guides

Sources and further reading

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