Monday, September 28, 2026
📍 From the Field World Health Organization (report of September 24): only 8 cholera cases in the week ending September 11, compared to a peak of 421 in the week ending July 3 — a decline it described as "encouraging" | UN High Commissioner for Refugees (statement of September 25, Geneva): more than 400 Sudanese cross daily into eastern Chad — twenty times the previous rate — while funding covers only 18% of the $1.6 billion needed | International Organization for Migration and OCHA: a ten-day cholera vaccination campaign in Tawila to protect 95,000 displaced people, and emergency shelter for around 12,000 people in Tawila, Al-La'ait and Umm Hajalij
1️⃣ Sudan's voice at the General Assembly The Sudanese Foreign Minister addresses the General Assembly at its 81st session: he presses regional sponsors "who were not content with facilitating the transfer of weapons... but opened combat fronts"; he regrets the prevention of Al-Burhan from addressing the Assembly by the visa refusal and calls on the Secretary-General, the Assembly and the Host Country Relations Committee to preserve the Headquarters Agreement; and he affirms that Chapter VII sanctions "for more than two decades" have failed to bring peace. Source: United Nations — the official broadcast of the General Assembly's work 💡 Analysis: Washington withheld the visa, conditioning it on a 90-day truce, and Al-Burhan replied from Khartoum, "We do not want a visa from any country." Sudan's speech in New York frames the conflict as a battle of sovereignty against regional sponsors — and this is the essence of the unitary position: Sudan is one state not to be equated with a militia, and the battle of the podiums is a battle for the state's legitimacy.
2️⃣ The drone war escalates A Rapid Support Forces drone strike targets the Umm Alila fuel depot near Wad Madani at dawn on Sunday (Sudan Tribune); and at the General Assembly, the British Foreign Secretary says drone attacks killed more than 1,000 civilians in the first five months of 2026 (gov.uk). 💡 Analysis: The flow of drones and weapons to the militia is what prolongs the war; the national position requires supporting state institutions — with the army at their forefront — as they fight in defence of the country's sovereignty against a foreign-funded militia.
3️⃣ Ethiopia accuses and Sudan denies Ethiopian Chief of Staff Birhanu Jula accuses Sudan, Egypt and Eritrea of supporting armed groups against his country; and the Sudanese army rejects the accusation, describing it as "baseless" and affirming its commitment to international law and good neighbourliness. (Al Jazeera) 💡 Analysis: The regional exchange of accusations reveals how the Sudanese war has turned into an arena for settling neighbours' scores; national unity above disagreements, and the Sudanese state with its institutions is the only reference capable of managing neighbourly relations without chaos.
— Editorial Team