• Eastern Sudan — new details on the drone attack: military sources told Sudan Tribune that suicide drones launched by the Rapid Support Forces attacked this morning the army's defences at the Upper Atbara and Setit dams complex in Gedaref State and the Khashm el-Girba reservoir in Kassala State, and that other drones targeted the headquarters of the Second Infantry Division and government and military headquarters in the city of Gedaref, confirming that ground air defences intercepted a number of them and that there were no losses as a result of the attack, which is the second of its kind after the September 15 attack on Al-Fashaga and Khashm el-Girba; local reports said that four suicide drones were shot down over the vicinity of the two dams without achieving their objectives and others in Khashm el-Girba, amid the sound of explosions heard in Gedaref (Source: Sudan Tribune via Sudan Tomorrow, October 18; Al-Nawras News, October 18) • West Kordofan — night raids on Rapid Support Forces columns: the Dar Hamar Emergency Room said, quoting local sources, that the air force on Saturday evening launched concentrated raids on columns and combat vehicles of the Rapid Support Forces that resulted in the destruction of 96 combat vehicles: 40 in Al-Khawi and the surrounding areas, 32 east of Umm Maraheik, and 24 in the vicinity of Al-Naym Abu Adham; no official statement has been issued so far by the Armed Forces regarding these raids and the toll could not be independently verified (Source: Nabdh Al-Sudan quoting the Dar Hamar Emergency Room, October 18) • Sudanese dialogue — Ardol demands disclosure of the details of the struck-off complaints: the head of the Democratic Alliance for Social Justice, Mubarak Ardol, demanded, in a post on Facebook, that the Sudanese Dialogue Preparation Committee disclose to public opinion the number and details of the complaints and legal procedures that were cancelled against leaders of political forces in implementation of a pledge contained in the speech of the President of the Sovereignty Council, and clarify what is still under procedures; this coincided with today's reports republishing the content of the decision of the President of the Sovereignty Council providing for striking off criminal complaints related to political opinions against Sudanese residing abroad who enter to participate in the Sudanese–Sudanese dialogue and granting them temporary procedural immunity — which is Decision No. (363) of 2026 according to a previous announcement by the Minister of Justice (Source: Nabdh Al-Sudan and Khartoum Sport on Ardol's post, October 18; Sudan Platform and Al-Ahd Online, October 18) • Omdurman markets — new jumps in the prices of basic commodities: a field tour by Darfur24 in Omdurman market observed the price of a sack of sugar rising to 400,000 pounds compared to 330,000 last week, a jerrycan of groundnut oil to more than 570,000 pounds compared to 400,000, an ardeb of onions to 820,000 pounds, and wheat flour (25 kilograms) to 160,000 pounds; traders attributed the rise to the halt in the movement of trucks and goods between Egypt and Sudan following the killing of Egyptian drivers and the injury of a third in Khartoum, and to the decline of the pound against the dollar to about 9,000 pounds according to the report, amid citizens' demands for urgent intervention (Source: Darfur24 via Nabdh Al-Sudan and Khartoum Sport, observed on Saturday, October 17 and details published today) • South Sudan — dismantling an alleged child-trafficking network in Juba: the spokesperson of the South Sudan People's Defence Forces, Major General Lul Ruai Koang, announced in a media briefing the arrest of eight suspects in a child kidnapping and trafficking network in the Darfur Market area in Munuki in Juba, after reports of 23 children missing in the neighbourhood alone, noting the recovery of a child from Pibor after about 20 days and reuniting him with his family and tracing eight other children who have not yet been recovered, and that military suspects will be subject to military trials and civilians will be handed over to the police, and the investigation is ongoing (Source: Spokesperson of the South Sudan People's Defence Forces via press reports from Juba, October 18)
— Editorial Team