• Higher education: SUNA's briefing conference No. 67 was held in the hall of the International University of Africa to announce the admission results for higher-education institutions for the academic year 2026–2027, with the participation of Ministers Ahmed Madwi Musa and Khalid Al-Aiser, and as of the moment of preparing this bulletin the details of the result had not been officially published, and students and their families are still waiting for it to be made available through the official channels (Source: Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research via Sudan News Agency (SUNA)) • The border with Egypt — follow-up on the miners' incident: The fact-finding committee continues its work, while the tolls published today differ; the "Emergency Lawyers" group spoke of 72 mining workers killed, while the Sudan Doctors Network announced a preliminary toll of no fewer than 13 dead and more than 28 injured, with affirmation that the final toll and the executing party have not yet been independently verified; for his part, the Egyptian military spokesman said his country's campaign targets illegal gold prospecting inside Egypt's borders, calling not to be drawn behind rumours (Source: Al-Saha newspaper) • Geneva: Sudan's Permanent Representative in Geneva, Hassan Hamid Hassan, said at a high-level event on refugees and voluntary return held on Tuesday on the sidelines of the seventy-seventh session of the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' programme, that voluntary return movements had exceeded five million people from inside the country and neighbouring states, calling for redirecting international priorities from merely humanitarian response to supporting early recovery and rehabilitating service facilities and infrastructure (Source: Al-Muhaqqiq newspaper) • Bangkok: The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Gabriel Ibrahim, at the seventeenth ministerial dialogue of the group of economies most vulnerable to climate risks, on the sidelines of the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank, called for reforming the international financing system, expanding concessional financing and moving from pledges to implementation, with financing directed towards agriculture, water, energy and basic services to support Sudan's recovery (Source: Al-Ahd Online) • Relief: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre distributed 300 shelter kits to affected and returning families in White Nile State, benefiting 1,890 individuals, and also distributed 2,000 personal-hygiene kits to displaced people in North Kordofan State, benefiting 8,339 individuals (Source: Saudi Press Agency via WE News English and Riyadh Daily) • Science: UNESCO's Sudan Office facilitated the participation of Sudanese women scientists and researchers in a regional event in Cairo and Alexandria within the Arab Women in Science platform on October 12 and 13, which celebrated the graduates of the first cycle of the Joint Mentoring Programme and launched its second cycle for 2026–2027, and discussed expanding research cooperation between Sudan and Egypt (Source: UNESCO) • South Sudan — Rumbek follow-up: The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) deployed a quick-reaction force from the Nepalese battalion to protect Rumbek Hospital, World Food Programme premises and the airport during the clashes, and evacuated the next day in a convoy 17 humanitarian workers who had been besieged in the Amok area north of Rumbek, and also deployed a civilian team to meet the state authorities and community leaders, who affirmed the return of calm (Source: UN Mission in South Sudan via UN Media) • South Sudan — Elections: The Sudan People's Liberation Movement intensified its preparations for its national conference and the general elections scheduled for December 2026; its Secretary-General, Akol Paul Kordit, briefed the Movement's First Deputy Chairman, James Wani Igga, on the progress of preparations, and the Secretariat announced sending leading cadres to the states to supervise the launch of the primaries and state conferences, and Abraham Mayen Kook was sworn in as the Movement's secretary in Lakes State (Source: SPLM Secretariat via Access Radio) • Editorial note: As of the moment of preparing this bulletin, no new documented major field or political developments had been recorded since the midday bulletin, and no new statement had been issued by the spokesman of the Armed Forces regarding a specific operation today; and what is circulating about the liberation of areas in Kordofan goes back mostly to earlier statements

— Editorial Team