Sudanese Anarchists Gathering (تجمع الأناركيين السودانيين)

The Sudanese Anarchists Gathering (تجمع الأناركيين السودانيين), also written in English as the Anarchist Group in Sudan, and in earlier statements as the Anarchist Federation of Sudan, is an anarchist collective based in Khartoum. The group traces its origins to 2017, when a handful of student organizers began meeting underground, and first declared itself publicly during a mass march in Khartoum in June 2019. A 2021 interview with members also describes a broader assembly of Khartoum anarchists that came together at the end of 2020, so accounts of its early shape vary. Since then it has operated through two military coups and a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people, forced millions from their homes, and destroyed most of the country’s infrastructure. Members have been arrested, killed, and exiled. The group keeps working.

In the conditions of active war, the Gathering organizes wherever it can: communal kitchens, medical care for displaced families, logistical support for people trying to reach safety. It has translated anarchist texts into Arabic and, with international support, acquired an industrial printing press in 2025 to print them for students and community members whose access to books was destroyed by the conflict; as of late 2025, the press was not yet fully operational due to shifting front lines. The group publishes the newsletter Al Amal (Hope) with CNT-AIT France, which has appeared since February 2025 on a wartime schedule, most recently in June 2026.

The group operates through non-hierarchical direct democracy and describes its struggle as a comprehensive rejection of authority in all its Sudanese forms: military, tribal, religious, ethnic. Women are integrated into the group at all levels. The group has spread beyond Khartoum to universities and organizing networks across the country, including a separate anarchist student movement at the University of Dongola in the north. It is the most publicly documented anarchist organization in Sudan.