06.03.2007 - Source: US Department of State

Provisions concerning marriage between Muslims and non-Muslims ("Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2006") [ID 19842]

"Since, under Islamic law, a non-Muslim woman takes on the religion of her husband at marriage, a Muslim man may marry a Christian or Jew, and their children will be considered Muslim. The same is not true for a Muslim woman, who cannot legally marry a non-Muslim unless he converts to Islam. This prohibition usually was neither observed nor enforced in areas of the south or among Nubans (most of whom were Muslim)."

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