Key facts
- Founded
- 1925 ; 101 years ago ( 1925 ) (as Sudan Defence Force )
- Current form
- 1956 ; 70 years ago ( 1956 )
- Service branches
- Army, Navy , Air Force , Republican Guard
- Headquarters
- Khartoum
- Supreme commander
- Transitional Sovereignty Council
- Commander in chief
- General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
- Minister of defence
- Hassan Daoud Kayan
- Chief of staff
- Yasser al-Atta
- Active personnel
- 300,000
- Reserve personnel
- 200,000
- Budget
- $2.47 Billion (2017 est.)
- Percent of gdp
- 1.0% (2017 est.)
- Domestic suppliers
- Military Industry Corporation
- Foreign suppliers
- China , Czech Republic , Iran , North Korea , Russia , Turkey
- Ranks
- Military ranks of Sudan
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- armed forces
- Has part
- Rapid Support Forces
- Country
- Sudan
- Headquarters
- Khartoum
- Image
- Insignia of the Sudanese Armed Forces.svg
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- Commons category
- Military of Sudan
- topic's main category
- Category:Military of Sudan
- inception
- 1990-00-00
- native label
- القوات المسلحة السودانية
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Encyclopedic overview
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF; Arabic: القوات المسلحة السودانية, romanized: Al-Qūwāt Al-Musallaḥah as-Sūdāniyah) are the military forces of the Republic of Sudan. The force strength has been estimated at 109,300 personnel in 2011 (by IISS), 200,000 personnel before the current war in Sudan broke out in 2023 (by the CIA), and 300,000 personnel in 2024 (by Al Jazeera).
As of 2026, the SAF and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) remain in armed conflict against one another in the ongoing civil war in Sudan. In 2016–2017, the RSF had 40,000 members participating in the Yemeni Civil War (of which 10,000 returned to Sudan by October 2019).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sudanese Armed Forces” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.