Without ribbon; The medal is designed to reward military personnel, police officers and other persons who took part in operations of 1933-1941, including for actions against Italian forces in South Sudan from June 1940 to November 1941. During World War II, in June 1940, the Italian army operating from the territory of Abyssinia occupied part of the territory of Sudan, but already in 1941 the Italians were forced to leave, and Sudan became an important base of the British armed forces in Africa. Military units recruited from the local population participated in hostilities in Eritrea, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia.
