Sub-Saharan Africa
Sudan
Capital: Khartoum
- 50MPopulation
- 49MMuslim
- 97%Muslim share
- $750GDP per person
- 18%Unemployment
- 66%In poverty
- 61%Literacy
- 65Life expectancy
- System
- transitional (war since 2023)
- In power
- Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (SAF)
- Currency
- pound
- In the UN since
- 1,956
Life today
War since 2023 broke everything: hunger, displacement, hospitals shut — yet poets still gather.
Word on the street
Connectivity is wartime-scarce; radio and word of mouth still carry the day.
Names the world knows
- Tayeb Salih novelist
- Omar al-Bashir former president
- Mohamed Wardi singer
Did you know?
Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt — the royal tombs of Meroë.