Saturday, October 10, 2026
📍 From the Field The spokesman for the Sudanese Armed Forces, Nabil Abdullah, is speaking about battles under way in eastern Gezira State, and the Arab World News Agency conveys testimonies from the village of Umm Alila east of Wad Madani about those clashes. (Sources: a5r5br / Arab World News Agency) The Sudan Doctors Network (via Radio Dabanga) monitors developments in the situation in Al-Dilling in South Kordofan and in the dormitories of University of Kordofan students in the city of El Obeid, both dated October 2. (Source: Sudan Doctors Network via Radio Dabanga) Relief teams continue their work in conflict areas amid escalating risks, after an attack on October 3 and 4 targeted two relief trucks contracted with the World Food Programme in South Kordofan, resulting in the killing of one of their drivers. (Source: UN News)
1️⃣ A new UN statement on the Wad Al-Mahi massacre.. and the Foreign Ministry condemns the El Obeid attacks The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Denise Brown, issued today (October 10) a statement regarding the attack that targeted a shelter centre for displaced people in Abu Shandi in Wad Al-Mahi locality (Blue Nile region) yesterday morning — the attack that resulted in about 30 dead, including 26 women and 4 children, according to statements by the Governor of Wad Al-Mahi, Mahjoub Al-Sheikh, to Al Jazeera, with local authorities holding the Rapid Support Forces responsible for it. (Sources: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs via ReliefWeb; Governor of Wad Al-Mahi to Al Jazeera) In Khartoum, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation condemned the drone attacks on the city of El Obeid yesterday, Friday. (Source: citizen-sd quoting the ministry statement) 💡 Quick reading (Analysis, not news): The UN coordinator's entry into the Wad Al-Mahi line raises the massacre from local news to an international humanitarian file — and what is needed now is an independent investigation that determines responsibility, because statements of condemnation alone no longer stop the drones.
2️⃣ Sudan's speech before the 225th session of the UNESCO Executive Board Sudan's Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, Ambassador Hamid Al-Jazouli, delivered Sudan's speech before the 225th session of the organisation's Executive Board in Paris, in the latest Sudanese diplomatic presence in international forums this week. (Source: citizen-sd) 💡 Quick reading (Analysis, not news): The cultural and diplomatic presence in Paris is a message that Sudan is still an actor in international institutions despite the war — but the weight of these words is measured by what the education and culture file returns with in real support.
3️⃣ Hunger warning expands: Famine risk extends to South Darfur The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) warned in its update issued on October 9 of the extension of famine risk to parts of South Darfur, expecting Emergency conditions (IPC4) to continue until next January. The warning came days after a joint statement by seven international humanitarian agencies (October 5) said that about 29 million Sudanese face acute food insecurity. (Sources: FEWS NET; the seven humanitarian agencies) 💡 Quick reading (Analysis, not news): The map of hunger expands every month — from Darfur to its south, and the 29 million figure places Sudan before the largest food crisis in the world today, while the international response is still below the scale of the catastrophe.
— Editorial Team