Wednesday, October 21, 2026 • Chad: Five people were killed, including two humanitarian volunteers and three Sudanese refugees, and others were seriously wounded, in a drone strike that targeted on Tuesday evening a gathering sheltering Sudanese refugees in the town of Bamna inside Chadian territory near the border with Sudan, according to a medical source and a statement by the Council of Emergency Rooms of Tina locality, which named the volunteers Al-Hadi Sandal Issa and Adam Omdah Arja, and warned that the communications outage is hindering follow-up on the wounded, calling for the protection of civilians and humanitarian workers. (Source: Darfur24 and the Council of Emergency Rooms of Tina locality) • South Sudan: About 16,000 Sudanese refugees registered in Gorum camp face a shortage of drinking water and medicines, the absence of a dedicated health centre, and severe overcrowding in classrooms that may reach about 300 children in a single class, as the refugee Abdullah Tutu said that pump water is salty and unfit for drinking, so families are forced to buy water transported from Juba at five thousand South Sudanese pounds for a small jerrycan, and that many children have spent about three years in the camp. (Source: Radio Dabanga) • Egypt: The Hope Committee for Voluntary Return said that organizing the dispatch of returning Sudanese faces increasing challenges, including the presence of people not registered on the trip lists and their crowding at gathering sites, and a rise in ticket prices to 1,800 pounds within two days due to the rise of the dollar, while the committee's chairman, Mohamed Wadaa, stressed a luggage ceiling of a main bag not exceeding 30 kilograms and a hand bag of between 7 and 10 kilograms, without exceptions. (Source: Al-Mashhad Al-Sudani)
— Editorial Team