• Mining — Wadi Al-Ashar: The sit-in by the people of the Wadi Al-Ashar area in Red Sea State has ended and Alliance Mining Company has resumed its activity, following a settlement led by the Minister of Minerals, Nour Al-Daim Taha, stipulating payment of the remaining financial entitlements at a rate of 2% and fulfilment of corporate social responsibility obligations at 1% in accordance with Resolution 90, representation of the local community on the company's board of directors, the return of dismissed employees to their jobs, and priority in appointments for the area's sons (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA) via Asdaa Sudania and On Sudan) • Diplomacy and dialogue: The new French special envoy for Sudan and the Horn of Africa, Jean-Marie Safa, affirmed after his meeting with the committee preparing the Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue in Khartoum that restoring trust among the Sudanese is the entry point to ending the war, calling for unifying international efforts behind a single dialogue track and supporting Sudan's unity, while Foreign Minister Mohiuddin Salem, in his meeting with the envoy, renewed Khartoum's rejection of narratives accusing the army of using chemical weapons (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA) via Al-Ahd Online and Asdaa Sudania) • Foreign talks: Sudanese-Russian talks addressed cooperation in the field of nuclear energy, while Sudan expressed its readiness for dialogue with Ethiopia according to defined controls and conditions (Source: Today's Sudanese newspaper headlines via Sudan Now) • Voluntary return: A group of 50 Sudanese families and children returning voluntarily from Mauritania arrived at Port Sudan International Airport on board Turkish Airlines, as part of coordination between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Organization for the Affairs of Sudanese Abroad, and the Sudanese embassy in Nouakchott, with the organization affirming its readiness to receive additional groups (Source: On Sudan and Asdaa Sudania) • Return from Egypt: The "Al-Amal Committee" announced the return of more than 63,000 Sudanese from Egypt to the country as part of voluntary return efforts (Source: Atheer News via Sudanese newspaper headlines) • Health — North Darfur: More than 500 dengue fever cases were recorded in the Tawila area of North Darfur, coinciding with the arrival of hundreds of newly displaced families in the area, while health authorities distributed free medicines to dialysis patients at Khartoum hospitals and the Ministry of Health formed a committee to develop the training and internship system for health professions (Source: Today's Sudanese newspaper headlines via Sudan Now) • South Sudan — Morobo: The acting commissioner of Morobo County, Moro Isaac Johnson, demanded the immediate resumption of two stalled projects funded by the UN Mission in South Sudan — the county hall and a prison cell — saying the two implementing partners had received 80% of the funding without completing the works, while displaced people in the county appealed for urgent humanitarian support (Source: Access Radio — Yei, morning bulletin of Thursday, October 15) • Editorial note: As of the preparation of this bulletin, no new documented statement has been issued by the official spokesperson of the Armed Forces regarding a specific operation today, so we have not published any circulating field claims not issued through his verified channels
— Editorial Team
