• The United Nations counts the drone escalation: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday that drone attacks killed at least 306 people and injured hundreds during the first three weeks of October, and the attacks were attributed to the Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces together, and struck homes, markets, hospitals, displacement sites, power stations and water sources in Kordofan, Darfur, Blue Nile, Khartoum and other states (Source: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR via UN News) • Among the most violent incidents documented by the UN: the killing of at least 139 people on October 18 when a transport truck was hit in Dibab in West Kordofan in a repeated strike, the killing of at least 31 people, most of them women and children, on October 9 near a displacement site in Abu Shendi in Blue Nile, and the injury of two health workers and Um Darfa Hospital in Blue Nile going out of service on October 11 (Source: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR) • International warning of famine risk: A joint ministerial statement issued on October 23 by the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, more than 25 European countries and the European Commission warned of a sharp deterioration in food security, and said that about 19.5 million people - 41 per cent of the population - face high levels of acute food insecurity, including 5 million at emergency levels, and that the number of children at risk of severe acute malnutrition could exceed 825,000 children, and called on the two parties to the conflict to lift all obstacles to humanitarian aid and allow full, safe and rapid access (Source: Joint ministerial statement on famine risk in Sudan - Government of the United Kingdom, Government of Canada and the European Commission) • Geneva meeting: The sixth consultative meeting to coordinate peace initiatives in Sudan, organised by the United Nations in Geneva with the participation of representatives of 22 countries and regional and international organisations, concluded by affirming the impossibility of a military solution, calling for an urgent humanitarian truce paving the way for a permanent ceasefire and a credible political process, rejecting the establishment of parallel governments, adhering to the unity of Sudan, and warning of the war spreading to neighbouring countries and of external interventions continuing (Source: United Nations - the sixth consultative meeting in Geneva, as reported by Sudanese and Arab media) • Abyei - conflicting figures and verification continuing: The toll of the strike on Amiet market - Al-Naam market - on October 19 remains a matter of dispute and verification, as local officials in the Abyei administration raised the toll to at least 153 killed, while the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei, UNISFA, said it was still assessing the losses, and South Sudan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had summoned Sudan's ambassador in Juba in protest, and the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied any link between the Armed Forces and the Al-Naam market incident in Abyei, according to what Sudanese newspaper headlines reported this morning (Source: Reuters, Associated Press, UNISFA and the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs via Sudanese newspapers) • Investigation into El Fasher hospitals: A BBC investigation documented at least 43 attacks on hospitals and health sites in El Fasher between May 2024 and October 2025 during the siege and fall of the city, and said that 55 health workers were killed, 120 were injured and 10 were abducted or forcibly disappeared in the city between April 2023 and October 2025, and Volker Türk described the findings as deeply alarming and possibly amounting to war crimes, while the Rapid Support Forces rejected the findings and described them, through the health minister in the civilian government loyal to it, as propaganda (Source: BBC) • Prime Minister returns after the COMESA summit: The Prime Minister returned to the country after participating in the 25th summit of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa - COMESA - and met on its sidelines with the President of Zimbabwe and held talks with his Somali counterpart on cooperation and regional issues, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs affirmed Sudan's ability to achieve economic integration with its African and international partners (Source: Sudan News Agency - SUNA - as reported by Sudanese newspaper headlines issued on Saturday morning, October 24) • Expansion of drone attacks in today's headlines: Sudanese newspaper headlines this morning monitored reports of drone raids targeting five travel buses in Um Rawaba in North Kordofan, sites in north and east Nyala, the market and military sites in El Fasher, and a crude oil tanker in East Darfur, with the army continuing to intensify its strikes on Rapid Support Forces positions in Darfur and Kordofan according to those headlines - and no independently verified statements had been issued by midday confirming the details of each of these incidents separately (Source: Sudanese newspaper headlines issued on Saturday morning, October 24, 2026) • Port Sudan - St Petersburg twinning: A twinning agreement was signed between the cities of Port Sudan and the Russian city of St Petersburg, in the context of broader diplomatic and economic moves (Source: Sudan News Agency - SUNA - as reported by Sudanese newspaper headlines) • Polio campaign starts on Monday: The Federal Ministry of Health announced the launch of the national polio response campaign for children from one day old to 5 years of age in the period from October 26 to 29, and Khartoum State Health announced the completion of preparations in seven localities through the house-to-house vaccination strategy under the slogan "Your vaccine is protection and prevention from polio" (Source: Federal Ministry of Health and Khartoum State Ministry of Health) • Schooling postponed in White Nile: It was decided to postpone the start of the school year in White Nile State to November 1, while the Minister of Education received the penultimate group of returnees from Egypt among the ministry's staff (Source: Sudanese newspaper headlines issued on Saturday morning, October 24, 2026)

— Editorial Team