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Alcohol in Sudan

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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:

  • 1899: prohibited import and sale without a license[2]
  • 1903: prohibited production and sale of all alcoholic beverages without a license, including traditional brews like marisa (millet beer)
  • 1919: prohibited production, sale, or possession of araqi (date gin) or marisa without a license

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.