In February 2008, the Sudanese government boycotted Danish goods after the controversial Muhammad cartoons have been reprinted by a series of newspapers in Denmark and other European countries.

[6] On 4 August 1969, a Danish Sterling Airways flight were seized by the Sudanese authorities, because it was going to Tel Aviv, a "violation of the arab world's anti-israeli boycott."

[7][8] In the 1970s, Denmark and Sudan signed many agreements, as they desired to strengthen the economic relations between the two countries.

[14] During the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, when Amnesty International learned that Denmark had invited the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, they wanted the Danish Government to arrest him.

[19] On 28 August 1992, both countries signed a financing implementation of a consolidation phase for rehabilitation of water yards in Sudan agreement.