• Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry issued a statement today affirming its "legitimate interests" in the Red Sea and its central role in the Nile Basin — noting that the Abbay River (the Blue Nile) contributes about 85% of the total flow of the Nile — rejecting any "coercive measures" or "acts of destabilisation", affirming its readiness to defend its sovereignty, territorial integrity and core national interests, and calling for constructive dialogue, partnership and good neighbourliness. (Source: Addis Standard, Demokrata)

• The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today adopted by majority a resolution extending the mandate of the "Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan" for another year — 28 states in favour, 10 against (including China, Cuba, Pakistan, Indonesia, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Egypt and Burundi) and 9 abstaining — with the draft resolution tabled by Britain, Ireland, Norway, the Netherlands and Germany. (Source: Tasamuh News, Pulse of Sudan)

• Interior Minister Lt. Gen. Babiker Abu Samra, speaking from Moscow, announced Sudan's full rejection of the proposed truce on the grounds that its objectives are not in the country's interest, denounced the American position and the ban on arms sales to Sudan, affirmed the state's legitimate right to buy arms from any source, and revealed that police had returned to their headquarters, the militia had been fully expelled from the capital, and 60% of the displaced had returned to their homes. (Source: Pulse of Sudan)

• The World Food Programme strongly condemned today a deadly airstrike that on Saturday morning targeted two trucks loaded with food aid between Dilling and Kadugli — two vehicles clearly marked as humanitarian — in which the driver was killed, calling for an urgent, impartial investigation and accountability for those responsible, a day after an explosive device detonated in another of the programme's trucks in Dilling following an aid delivery. (Source: UN News, World Food Programme)

• The Sudan Food Security and Livelihoods Cluster warned that about 29 million people face acute food insecurity, and that famine has been confirmed several times over the past two years under the Integrated Phase Classification, while farmers in Darfur, Kordofan and Blue Nile planted despite violence and displacement — though land, roads and markets are under attack, rains are weak, and inflation is raising the cost of food, fuel and transport. (Source: Sudan Food Security and Livelihoods Cluster)

• Data from the International Organization for Migration's Displacement Tracking Matrix showed that 11% of those crossing into Sudan from neighbouring countries intend to leave again within three months — more than double the 5% recorded in October 2025 — while 1,110,605 crossings into Sudan from Egypt, Chad, Ethiopia and Eritrea were recorded between January 2024 and August 2026. (Source: Displacement Tracking Matrix – International Organization for Migration)

— Editorial Team