Is MDA legal in Sudan?
- Legal status
- Controlled. MDA is a 1971 Convention Schedule I substance and Sudan files psychotropic assessments with INCB. The domestic statute is the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropics and Precursors Control Act 1994; no official Sudanese publication of its text was reachable during this pass and the Ministry of Health domain does not resolve.
- Consequences if caught
- NOT CONFIRMED from a primary source. The Articles 15/16/17 aggravator description previously carried here rested on an NGO overview rather than the Act, and is withdrawn. Civil war since 2023 makes enforcement unpredictable.
- If prescribed or medical
- No lawful prescription route. MDA is a Schedule I substance under the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances - the schedule reserved for substances with no recognised medical use - and no country anywhere furnished INCB an MDA assessment for 2026, while the closely related MDMA and MDPV each appear dozens of times in the same return. There is no licit MDA supply to prescribe from.
- Documentation
- No lawful personal import. Sudan's 2026 narcotic estimates carry the INCB asterisk - the Board set them because Sudan furnished none - so Sudanese medicines data is not country-reported.
- INCB, Assessments of Annual Medical and Scientific Requirements for Psychotropic Substances, as at 21 August 2026: https://www.incb.org/incb/uploads/documents/Psychotropics/assessment/psy_assessments_20260821_F.txt
- INCB, Estimated World Requirements of Narcotic Drugs for 2026 (July update): https://www.incb.org/incb/uploads/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Status-of-Estimates/2026/EstJul26_rev.pdf
Court records
We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.
Other substances confirmed in Sudan
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