General Intelligence Service (Sudan)

General Intelligence Service
Arabic: جهاز المخابرات العامة
Agency overview
Formed	1956 (69 years)
Preceding agency	National Intelligence and Security Service (1969–1971); Security of the Revolution (1989–1985); State Security Organisation (1978–1985, 1988–1989); National Security Organisation (1969–1978); General Security Organisation (1969–1978); Police's Special Branch (1956–1969);
Jurisdiction	Government of Sudan
Headquarters	Khartoum, Sudan; 15°35′51″N 32°32′29.5″E / 15.59750°N 32.541528°E
Agency executive	Ahmed Ibrahim Ali Mufaddal, Director;
Website	https://www.gis.gov.sd/

The General Intelligence Service or Directorate of General Intelligence Service (Arabic: جهاز المخابرات العامة) is the intelligence service of the federal government of Sudan, created in July 2019 from the former National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) by the Transitional Military Council during the Sudanese Revolution in response to demands from protestors to close down NISS because of its role in repression.

From the early days of the Special Branch and nascent army intelligence, through the omnipresent State Security of Gaafar Nimeiry and the all-powerful NISS of Omar al-Bashir, up to the contested intelligence landscape of today, these organisation have been central to regime survival, domestic surveillance, and internal conflict. Their formal structures and names have changed with each political era, but their core function, controlling and managing internal threats to the state (or regime), has remained a defining feature of Sudanese governance.