Monday, September 28, 2026
• The Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General to Sudan, Pekka Haavisto, revealed an agreement between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces to establish specific mechanisms for direct handling of the file of civilian detainees and the exchange of prisoners, in a step he described as a positive beginning toward building trust; he noted that the two parties had put in place arrangements to discuss those measures with the United Nations, amid intensive diplomatic moves during the high-level week of the General Assembly. (Source: Al-Nawras News, citing Haavisto's interview with Al Arabiya channel; confirmed by Sudan Times newspaper)
• The Sudanese Foreign Minister addresses the 81st session of the General Assembly: he stresses Sudan's sovereignty and unity, and presses the regional sponsors "who did not stop at facilitating the transfer of weapons... but opened battlefronts"; he regrets the prevention of Al-Burhan from addressing the Assembly through the refusal of the visa and calls for preserving the Headquarters Agreement; and he affirms that Chapter Seven sanctions "for more than two decades" have failed to bring peace. (Source: United Nations – the official broadcast of the General Assembly's proceedings)
• Ethiopia accuses and Khartoum denies: the Ethiopian Chief of Staff, Field Marshal Birhanu Jula, accuses Sudan, Egypt and Eritrea of supporting armed groups against his country; and the Sudanese army rejects the accusation, describing it as "baseless," and affirms its commitment to international law and good neighbourliness. (Source: Al Jazeera)
• In the field: an RSF drone strike targets the Umm Aleila fuel depot east of the city of Wad Madani in Gezira State at dawn on Sunday, leading to thick columns of smoke rising from the tanks, according to witnesses; the depots are a strategic facility for the storage and distribution of petrol and diesel in central Sudan. (Source: Sudan Tribune)
• In Blue Nile: dozens of motorcycles were confiscated for violating the curfew (from five in the evening until six in the morning), while the region's governor, Ahmed Al-Omda Badi, extended the state of emergency for three months under a decree he signed on September 23. (Source: Al Jazeera; Radio Tamazuj)
— Editorial Team