• The fallout from the Abu Shindi massacre widens: Emergency Lawyers say a drone strike on Friday, October 9, on a gathering of displaced people near Abu Shindi in Wad al-Mahi locality (Blue Nile) left 41 dead, most of them women and children, while the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) expressed its shock and said initial reports indicate 40 civilians were killed. The Sudanese Ministry of Information demanded an independent international investigation and considered the attack a war crime requiring accountability, while al-Burhan's advisor Dr. Amjad Farid said the drones were launched from Ethiopia, and the "Ta'sis" Alliance denied responsibility, accusing the Egyptian air force. (Source: Emergency Lawyers; OCHA; Sudanese Ministry of Information; Dr. Amjad Farid, advisor to al-Burhan; statement of the Ta'sis Alliance)
• Damazin under bombardment: drones targeted residential neighborhoods and a mosque at dawn in the capital of Blue Nile — Emergency Lawyers: 4 women were killed in the Al-Hijra neighborhood and dozens were wounded, and civil society condemned the targeting of civilian objects and places of worship. (Source: Emergency Lawyers; Blue Nile Civil Society Initiative)
• El Obeid: drones targeted the city on October 9 — 6 civilians wounded and homes and vehicles damaged, and military sources accuse the Rapid Support Forces, which did not comment. (Source: Sudan Tribune)
• Babanusa (West Kordofan): mine explosions turn the city into a minefield — 35 dead and dozens injured. (Source: Tasamuh News)
• Kadugli (South Kordofan): artillery shelling attributed to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (al-Hilu) — a mother and her three children were killed. (Source: Tasamuh News)
• 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 over allegations that the army used chemical weapons, and demanded that it complete its national investigation and share the results. (Source: EU Reporter)
• Al-Burhan from Merowe: he pledged to continue the "military option" until restoring "every inch" of the country, renewing his rejection of negotiation with the Rapid Support Forces. (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA))
• South Sudan: 71 dead, including 4 soldiers, in communal clashes at dawn on Friday in the city of Rumbek; the transitional government deployed security reinforcements and said the situation is under control. (Source: Agence France-Presse; Ministry of Information of the Transitional Government of South Sudan)
• Juba: the army announced the killing of 13 opposition fighters in clashes in Upper Nile in early October, and the government denied reports about the expulsion of foreigners. (Source: Spokesperson for the South Sudan People's Defence Forces; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Sudan)
— Editorial Team