title: 2017 in Sudan
text: # 2017 in Sudan
  
  Events in the year 2017 in Sudan.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Omar al-Bashir
  * Prime Minister: Bakri Hassan Saleh
  * Vice President: Bakri Hassan Saleh (first), Hassabu Mohamed Abdalrahman (second)
  
  ## Events
  
  * War in Darfur continues
  * 30 July: establishment of the Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan
  
  ### Sport
  
  * 24 January – ?: 2017 Sudan Premier League season
  * 4–13 August: Sudan at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 16 February: Ali Osman, Sudanese expatriate composer and conductor in Egypt (b. 1958)
  * 12 August: Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese Communist Party member (b. 1933)
  