Sudan

French presence

French Embassy in Sudan
French community: 250 people.

Visits

Last visit to Paris: Visit by General Burhan and Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok for the International Conference for Sudan on 17 May 2021. The Prime Minister also took part in the Summit on the Financing of African Economies the following day.

Last visit to Sudan: Visit to Khartoum by the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Mr Jean-Yves Le Drian, on 16 September 2019 – the first by a French Minister since 2007.

Ambassadors

The Ambassador of France to the Republic of the Sudan is Ms Raja Rabia. 
The Ambassador of the Sudan in France is Mr Omar Bachir Manis.

Cultural, scientific and technical cooperation

Our long-standing cultural cooperation and research relationship is particularly extensive. This is borne out by the establishment in Khartoum in 1993 of the Centre for Social, Judicial and Economic Documentation and Study (CEDEJ), affiliated with the CEDEJ of Cairo. In 1969, the French Section of the Sudanese Directorate of Antiquities (SFDAS) was created, a Franco-Sudanese archaeological research institute located in the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum.

Significant academic cooperation has been developed, and France is the leading destination in the Western world for Sudanese students.

The scientific cooperation partnership created on an equal basis with the Government of Sudan, which established the “NAPATA” Hubert Curien Partnership programme, is France’s third programme of this kind in sub-Saharan Africa. The creation of this instrument completes the structuring of cooperation ties that have reached a certain maturity. The Sudanese Government’s equal commitment (Ministry for Higher Education and Scientific Research) and the successful implementation of this new programme are highly positive.

France has an active cultural and educational network in Sudan, first and foremost with the Institut Français (French Institute) of Khartoum, but also with a network of Alliance Française branches (Al-Ubayyid, Wad Madani and Port Sudan) and Franco-Sudanese centres (Dalang, Rufaa and Nyala), as well as the French school in Khartoum.