Gaming in Sudan
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- 14 Feb 2023
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ABOUT SUDAN
Sudan, country located in northeastern Africa. The name Sudan derives from the Arabic expression bilād al-sūdān (“land of the blacks”), by which medieval Arab geographers referred to the settled African countries that began at the southern edge of the Sahara.
For more than a century, Sudan—first as a colonial holding, then as an independent country—included its neighbour South Sudan, home to many sub-Saharan African ethnic groups. Prior to the secession of the south in 2011, Sudan was the largest African country, with an area that represented more than 8 percent of the African continent and almost 2 percent of the world’s total land area.
BRIEFLY ABOUT THE ECONOMY OF SUDAN
Sudan is one of the poorest and least-developed countries in the world, with about one-third of its inhabitants dependent on farming and animal husbandry for their livelihoods. Though its role in the economy has declined in the decades since independence, agriculture still accounts for about one-third of Sudan’s gross domestic product (GDP). Oil production began in the late 1990s, and petroleum quickly became the country’s most important export.
GAMBLING IN SUDAN
As in nearly all of the Arabic countries, gambling in Sudan is prohibited under Islamic Shari’a Law. In Sudan, gambling restrictions and punishments for gambling are laid down in the so called Public Order Laws, that date back to 1983. They were referred to back then as the September Laws, imposed by the authoritarian regime of President Jafaar Numeiri. He introduced Shari’a corporal punishments (hudud) for acts such as consuming alcohol, stealing, the mixing between sexes and also gambling.
The new regime, that took over the country in 1989 in a military coup, introduced it’s own Public Order Laws in an attempt to create an Islamic State in Sudan*. The new laws upheld and even widened the scope of restrictions. Corporal punishment is widely used even to this date in Sudan for so called moral offences, which include gambling as well. The punishment is usually carried out in public and it entails 40 to 100 whip lashes for minor offences, like gambling. Read More…
