• Britain imposes sanctions on 15 military commanders, militia leaders and security officials from both sides of the conflict in Sudan, accusing them of committing sexual violence, torture and attacks on civilians, and the sanctions included commanders from the Rapid Support Forces and the Armed Forces and leaders of armed groups allied with the army (Source: Reuters) • The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Dr. Nabil Fahmy, arrives in Khartoum this Monday morning on his first visit to Sudan since taking office, and was received by Foreign Minister Mohieddin Salem, and is scheduled to meet the Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Prime Minister Kamil Idris, the Committee for Preparing the Sudanese Dialogue and representatives of political forces to discuss stopping the war and supporting Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue (Source: Asdaa Sudaniya and Wajh Africa) • Drone attacks at dawn today, Monday, target power stations in Al-Faw and Al-Hawata in Gedaref State and Al-Junaid in Gezira State, and cause power outages across wide areas and the eastern grid going out of service, without confirmed reports of loss of life, while the attack was attributed to the Rapid Support Forces and the source of the drones could not be independently verified (Source: Agence France-Presse via Okaz, and Sudan Now) • Drones target two fuel stations in Um Rawaba in North Kordofan and fuel depots in Um Alila, east of Wad Madani in Gezira State, and the army's ground defences repel an attempt to target Um Alila without losses, according to local sources and witnesses (Source: Saqr Al-Jedian reporting Al Jazeera - Sudan) • Sudanese newspapers issued today highlight the government's decision to remove all obstacles before humanitarian work to speed up the delivery of aid to those affected, and a message from the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council to the Sultan of Oman regarding bilateral relations, which the Omani side received yesterday through the Minister of Finance, Dr. Gabriel Ibrahim, alongside the worsening fuel scarcity in Khartoum and a number of states (Source: Saudi Press Agency - Sudanese newspaper coverage) • In the Abyei file: the Chairman of the Oversight Committee for the area from the Sudan side, Al-Khair Abu Mureidat, demands that the UNISFA mission conduct an urgent and transparent investigation into the October 19 attack on Al-Naam market, which claimed the lives of 80 people according to the United Nations, and the Security Council demands in an October 24 statement the evacuation of Abyei of all military forces except UNISFA and the holding of those responsible to account, while the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied the army's connection to the attack (Source: Saqr Al-Jedian and United Nations News) • The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, condemns the escalation of drone attacks in Sudan, and the Human Rights Commission documents the killing of at least 306 people and the injury of hundreds during the first three weeks of October as a result of attacks attributed to both sides that targeted homes, markets, hospitals, displacement sites, power stations and water sources (Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and United Nations News) • Amnesty International publishes new testimonies about El Fasher a year after its takeover by the Rapid Support Forces, and says that civilians are still being subjected to detention, torture and unlawful killing with limited aid, and that the number of people present in the city is less than 70,000 compared with more than a million before the war, and calls for independent access and an immediate ceasefire (Source: Amnesty International) • South Sudan calls for strengthening the cooperation of the East African Community countries to manage shared water resources in the Lake Victoria Basin, during the Sectoral Council of Ministers meeting in Kisumu, Kenya, from October 19 to 23, and affirms its connection to the White Nile system and the impact of basin changes on its water security (Source: The Dawn newspaper - South Sudan) • South Sudan decides to shorten the school year by a month to bring forward the primary and secondary school examinations to November, in preparation for the general elections scheduled for December 22, 2026 (Source: Sudans Post)

— Editorial Team