Sunday, October 11, 2026
📍 From the Field
• Wad Al-Mahi (Blue Nile): Emergency Lawyers say that a drone raid on Friday, October 9, on a gathering of displaced people near Abu Shandi left 41 dead, most of them women and children, and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs "OCHA" expressed its shock and said initial reports indicate the killing of 40 civilians — the Sudanese Ministry of Information demanded an independent international investigation and considered the attack a war crime, and Al-Burhan's adviser Dr. Amjad Farid said the drones were launched from Ethiopia, while the "Ta'sis" Alliance denied its responsibility, accusing Egyptian aviation. (Source: Emergency Lawyers; OCHA; Sudanese Ministry of Information; Dr. Amjad Farid; Ta'sis Alliance statement)
• West Kordofan: The Kordofan Observatory announced on Saturday the killing of four civilians from one family, including two children, in shelling by a drone attributed to the Sudanese army that targeted the residential Abu Ba'a neighbourhood in the city of Ghubaysh, and revealed the killing of 12 people and the injury of eight others, most of them women and children, in a similar attack on the city of Al-Nuhud last Thursday that targeted the Al-Nuhud locality building used to shelter displaced people — in return, the Air Force carried out on Saturday evening airstrikes targeting positions and concentrations of the Rapid Support Forces in Al-Nuhud. (Source: Kordofan Observatory via Saqr Al-Jidian News; Dar Hamar Emergency Room via On Sudan)
• Voluntary return: The Al-Amal Committee announced on Saturday the dispatch of 18 buses that left Cairo carrying 882 Sudanese returning voluntarily to their homeland as part of the free land trips programme — Deputy Chair of the Transport Committee Noha Mohamed Ibrahim said the committee seeks to accelerate the pace of transporting those affected by the war, and the total number of returnees in September reached 4073 people via 83 buses. (Source: Al-Amal Committee for Voluntary Return via Jeddah 24 newspaper)
📰 Top Stories
• Al-Burhan, from Merowe, pledged to continue the "military option" until restoring "every inch" of the country, renewing his rejection of negotiation with the Rapid Support Forces. (Source: SUNA)
• The Security Council unanimously extended the sanctions regime on Sudan for two months — until December 11, 2026 — and the mandate of the Panel of Experts until January 11, 2027, amid American negotiations to expand the arms embargo. (Source: UN News — Resolution 2830)
• The Hague: Five countries (America, Germany, Australia, Finland and Belgium) pressed Sudan at the 113th session of the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons regarding allegations that the army used chemical weapons, and demanded that it complete its national investigation and share the results. (Source: EU Reporter)
• Economy: The price of the US dollar today, Sunday, exceeded the level of 9000 Sudanese pounds in the parallel market — about 9004.27 pounds for sale and 8900 for purchase — up 8.07% in a week, compared with 4200 for purchase and 4231.5 for sale at the Bank of Khartoum. (Source: Parallel market data and banking bulletins via Khalijiyoun)
— Editorial Team