• Nyala: 21 people were killed and more than 40 others injured on Monday evening in a drone strike that targeted a market in the north of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur State, according to a medical source at Nyala Hospital and witnesses, and it was not yet clear what proportion of the victims were Rapid Support Forces fighters (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP, via Al Jazeera) • Khartoum responds to the famine warning: The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the food situation in the country is reassuring and that the strategic stock and ongoing agricultural operations will provide the needs, rejecting what it described as the politicisation of the humanitarian situation and the use of the proposed humanitarian truce as a cover to give the Rapid Support Forces an opportunity to rearm, and affirming that it will continue to facilitate the delivery of aid to all Sudanese (Source: Statement of the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs) • Washington: The Senior Advisor to the US President for Arab and African Affairs, Massad Boulos, said the growing risk of famine in Sudan highlights the urgent need to secure a humanitarian truce as the first step towards sustainable peace (Source: US Department of State) • Moscow: The Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, is leading Sudan's delegation to the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow on October 28 and 29, and the delegation includes the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Finance, the Director General of the General Intelligence Service and the Director General of the Defence Industries System, and al-Burhan is scheduled to address the summit, hold a bilateral meeting with the Russian President and visit the Russian State University for the Humanities (Source: Sudan News Agency - SUNA, quoting Sudan's Ambassador to Russia Mohamed El-Ghazali El-Tigani Siraj) • Sydney: A delegation from the Ministry of Minerals, headed by the Ministry's Undersecretary Dr. Hind Siddig, took part in the International Mining and Resources Conference and Expo IMARC 2026 in Sydney from October 27 to 29, and presented a paper titled "Sudan Is Not a Destination for Gold Only" that reviewed the diversity of mineral resources, from copper, iron, chromium and nickel to zinc, and called for strategic investment partnerships in the sector (Source: Sudan News Agency - SUNA)

— Editorial Team