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Back to your licensed campus by 1 August 2026 or lose the right to admit: Sudan's order to its displaced universities, and what it means for the University of Bahri
The University of Bahri is a public university in Khartoum North, inaugurated in 2011, with a College of Medicine in the World Directory of Medical Schools. Like every campus in the capital it was emptied by the fighting that began in April 2023, and like every Sudanese university it now faces a deadline set by the state.
According to the Sudan Tribune, Sudan's Ministry of Higher Education ordered all universities and higher-education institutions to return to their original licensed premises by 1 August 2026, directing institutions that had been operating outside the country or in areas of displacement to resume full academic activity at their approved locations or lose the right to admit new students. The order followed the army's recovery of Khartoum. The Chr. Michelsen Institute, describing the University of Khartoum's experience, recorded that most of its staff and students had fled to safer parts of Sudan or to neighbouring countries after April 2023, that the university opened a centre in Cairo, and that when the armed forces retook the university in September 2024 they found it heavily damaged, with buildings ransacked. NPR, reporting on the fourth year of the war in April 2026, described a country still fighting, with famine and displacement continuing in Darfur and elsewhere.
The order matters to a foreign applicant in a way the headline does not show. A university that has been teaching from Cairo, Port Sudan or online for three years must now move students, staff and clinical training back into buildings that were looted or occupied, in a city where services are being rebuilt. For a first-year student that means an uncertain year: where lectures happen, whether the teaching hospital is functioning, whether the programme's recognition abroad survives an interrupted and relocated course. None of this is the university's fault. All of it is the applicant's problem, and none of it appears in an agent's presentation.
The check is the same as for every Sudanese college on this site: written confirmation from the university, from an official address, of where teaching and rotations take place this year; written confirmation from your home regulator that a course delivered under these conditions will be accepted; and no money to any intermediary who cannot produce both.
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