Tuesday, October 27, 2026 • Prime Minister Professor Kamal Idris directed the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research that Sudanese higher education centres operating outside the country continue performing their tasks, until their situations are regularised in accordance with the controls and requirements approved by the ministry — in a step that grants the centres and their students temporary stability pending completion of the regularisation procedures, after the circumstances of the war pushed numbers of students to continue their education outside Sudan (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA), October 26, 2026 — via Teryaq News). • Final alert for private admission students: the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research extended the application period for admission under the private expense system and the admission of children of workers at public universities for the academic year 2026–2027 by an additional ten days, based on the directives of the Prime Minister, with the period to close on Thursday, October 29, 2026 — and the General Administration for Admission and Evaluation and Authentication of Certificates called on students to hurry to complete their procedures before the deadline ends (Source: Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research — via Al-Mandara News). • A new teachers' strike in Khartoum today: the Supreme Strike Committee of the Sudanese Teachers Committee set today, Tuesday, October 27, as the date for a strike covering all localities of Khartoum State, after awareness campaigns inside schools on October 26 and a previous strike on October 21 and 22 — and the committee said the review of the strike showed wide compliance in localities including Karari, East Nile, Bahri, Umbadda and Jebel Awlia, and accused the authorities of delaying the implementation of the workers' financial demands, noting that what has been achieved so far does not exceed raising the meal allowance from 7,700 pounds to 22,300 pounds and paying some arrears at spaced intervals, and affirming that settling the workers' rights is a condition for ending the action (Source: Statement of the Sudanese Teachers Committee — via Al-Mashhad Al-Sudani, October 25, 2026). • The Cultural Counselor at the Embassy of Sudan in Cairo yesterday, Monday, October 26, closed the door for the inventory of private and foreign Sudanese schools and educational centres operating with the Sudanese curriculum in Egypt, in implementation of the directives of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education and National Education and at the request of the Administration of Non-Governmental and Foreign Education — and the Counselor affirmed that the inventory was carried out electronically only through its approved platform, without accepting any paper forms, by hand, or data arriving after the deadline (Source: Cultural Counselor at the Embassy of Sudan in Cairo — via Sudan Platform, October 24, 2026). • One year after the fall of El Fasher, Plan International counted in its statement on the first anniversary (October 26) the cost of the war on children's education: more than 8 million school-age children are out of school across Sudan, and in the Darfur region alone UNICEF estimates that 81% of schools are still closed and that 70% of children do not attend school — and the organisation warned that children remaining outside education exposes them to the risks of early marriage, exploitation and recruitment, and called for protecting civilians, guaranteeing humanitarian access and investing in education services and psychological support (Source: Plan International, October 26, 2026 — Darfur figures via UNICEF). • From Geneva, the education file returned to the forefront of international efforts on Sudan: at the consultative meetings to coordinate peace initiatives (October 21), Swiss Minister of State Alexandre Fasel cited UNICEF warnings that 8 million Sudanese children are out of school today, describing that as not only a violation of the right to education but also a major risk factor for the future stability of Sudan, at a time when the number of people in need of humanitarian support in the country approaches 34 million people, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (Source: UN News, October 21, 2026).
— Editorial Team
