• Wad Al-Mahi – new reactions: UN Women condemned, in a statement dated today, October 13, Friday's drone strike on a displacement site in Wad Al-Mahi in Blue Nile, and said that the majority of the dead and wounded were women and children, and called for a swift, independent and transparent investigation and accountability for those responsible, pointing to wide displacement in the area since late September (Source: UN Women via APO) • Wad Al-Mahi – US position: The US President's Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs, Massad Boulos, condemned the drone attack on the displaced persons' site in Wad Al-Mahi, and called for a humanitarian truce and a halt to attacks on civilians and civilian objects, and for Security Council action to curb the flow of external military support (Source: Statements by Massad Boulos, via Al-Zawiya Net and Nabd Al-Sudan) • Blue Nile – Umm Darfa Hospital: The Sudan Doctors Network said in a statement on Monday that a drone attack on Sunday destroyed Umm Darfa Hospital in Wad Al-Mahi locality, put it out of service and seriously wounded two medical staff members, and held the Rapid Support Forces responsible and called for the protection of health facilities; no comment had been issued by the Rapid Support Forces as of Monday morning, according to what reports on the network's statement stated (Source: Sudan Doctors Network) • The miners file – the Egyptian side: The Egyptian military spokesperson announced on Monday evening the participation of the armed forces and the police in the third phase of an expanded security campaign against illegal gold mining in the Eastern Desert, after warning leaflets were dropped, coinciding with Sudan's investigation into the border miners incident (Source: Egyptian military spokesperson, via Al-Minassa) • South Kordofan – Al-Dalanj: Local sources reported that the city of Al-Dalanj was subjected on Monday to heavy artillery shelling attributed to the Rapid Support Forces and the SPLM, with no official information so far on the scale of the human or material losses (Source: Local sources, via Sudan Plus and Nabd Al-Sudan) • Editorial alert: Apart from the reactions above to existing events, the newsroom has not, as of this afternoon, monitored any major new developments since the midday bulletin – no fall of a city, no ceasefire, and no new UN decision (Source: Editorial Team monitoring of Sudan News Agency (SUNA), Sovereignty Council, Reuters and United Nations sources)

— Editorial Team