Sudanese Armed Forces (Historical structural profile — does not necessarily reflect the current situation under war conditions)
The nucleus of the Sudanese Armed Forces was founded in 1925 under the name "Sudan Defence Force", following the assassination of the British Governor-General Sir Lee Stack in Cairo and the withdrawal of Egyptian battalions from Sudan, so a new Sudanese force was formed consisting of about six thousand soldiers, including the Camel Corps, the Eastern Arab Corps, the Western Arab Corps and the Equatoria Corps, supported by artillery, engineering, machine gun, medical services, signals and transport. Units of this force participated in World War II alongside the Allied forces.
After Sudan's independence in 1956, the force was transformed into the Sudanese Armed Forces in its current form, consisting of three main branches: the Land Forces, the Naval Forces and the Air Forces, in addition to the Republican Guard. The main headquarters is in Khartoum, the age of military service is 18 years, and its motto is "God–Homeland".
The institution possesses a national industrial structure represented by the "Sudanese Military Industry Corporation" as a local supplier of equipment and ammunition, and the Sudanese military institution is considered one of the oldest military institutions on the African continent, as its institutional age exceeds one hundred years. At the institutional level, its tasks include defending the country's sovereignty and territorial unity, and it is distinguished — according to what is recorded about it — by a combat doctrine based on defending the homeland and preserving its sovereignty and national unity, and a strict military discipline system, in addition to declared civilian roles consisting of contributing to confronting natural disasters and maintaining security in exceptional cases, which are tasks recorded in the literature introducing the institution for decades.
(Sources: Wikipedia Encyclopedia — entries "Sudanese Armed Forces" and "Sudan Defence Force"; Al-Sudani newspaper via Sudars archive)
— Editorial Team