Thursday, October 22, 2026 • Chad: The International Organization for Migration and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated that 1,368,694 people crossed the border into Chad since the start of the crisis in Sudan in May 2023 until 30 September 2026, including 404,256 Chadian returnees residing in 170 locations in the east of the country, an increase of 2% over August, and among the registered returnees 193,795 people underwent biometric registration, 68% of them children. (Source: International Organization for Migration via ReliefWeb) • South Sudan: Border monitoring conducted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organization for Migration and ACTED recorded the arrival of 59,615 new arrivals in Renk County, Upper Nile State, between January and June 2026, Sudanese nationals making up 40% of them and women and children 80%, while 26,806 people received organised transport assistance from Joda to the Renk transit centre. (Source: ReliefWeb — Humanitarian and Operational Situation Update in Renk, 20 October 2026) • Egypt and Libya: The chairman of the Hope Committee for Voluntary Return, Mohamed Wadaa Allah, said in a press briefing in Khartoum on Monday that about 70,000 Sudanese were dispatched from Egypt between April and October, out of 90,000 registered in the committee's electronic system, including more than 800 detainees for residency violations and 3,000 patients out of 9,000 registered patients, and that the committee agreed with the Egyptian government to transfer the Sudanese present in Libya to Sudan via Egyptian territory under a transit system, awaiting the approval of the Sudanese authorities via the embassy. (Source: Ard Al-Sudan Platform)
— Editorial Team