Monday, September 21, 2026 • The Regional Bureau for Europe of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees issued a report on September 18 revealing that more than 11.4 million people had been displaced by the war in Sudan as of July 6, 2026, including more than 4.5 million who fled outside the country, and that about 60% of them are hosted in seven neighbouring countries — Chad, Egypt, Libya and South Sudan among the largest — while unmet needs push some towards Europe through perilous journeys (Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). • South Sudan's Vice President Hussein Abdelbagi Akol met on September 15 with the Egyptian Ambassador Hazem Mamdouh Fawzi in Juba to discuss the return of South Sudanese citizens stranded in Egypt, as part of an emergency plan adopted by the Council of Ministers on September 5 with a budget of $26.5 million to repatriate about 20,000 of the most vulnerable groups (detainees, students, the elderly, the sick, women, children and people with disabilities), with a high-level delegation to be dispatched to Cairo (Source: Office of the Vice President / Community Radio). • The Association of Sudanese Doctors Abroad demanded, in a statement dated September 3, the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Attia Abdullah Attia, a public health specialist and Secretary-General of the Sudan Doctors' Union, who has been detained since mid-August in Gedaref State while providing medical services to people infected with leishmaniasis in cooperation with regional institutions for endemic diseases and the University of Gedaref (Source: Statement of the Association of Sudanese Doctors Abroad).
— Editorial Team