Tuesday, October 20, 2026 1. The Security and Defence Council holds its regular meeting chaired by the President of the Sovereignty Council, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, reviews the security and economic situation, and stresses the rule of law and facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid to those entitled to it without obstacles (Source: Council statement delivered by its rapporteur, Minister of Defence Lt. Gen. Daoud Hassan Kabroun, reported by Sudanese media) 2. South Sudan summons Sudan's ambassador to Juba, Essam Karrar, in protest at a drone attack that targeted the Amit "Al-Naam" market north of the town of Abyei, which Juba attributed to the Sudanese Armed Forces, and the acting Minister of Information in Abyei said the attack killed 73 people and wounded 19 others, with no immediate comment from Khartoum (Source: South Sudan Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Reuters; Radio Tamazuj) 3. The Governor of North Darfur, Al-Hafiz Bakhit Mohamed, affirms that liberating the city of El Fasher is at the top of his government's priorities, and announces the organisation of the work of the popular resistance under the command of the 6th Infantry Division, with the opening of the Al-Nusour camp in Merowe to train mobilised recruits under the division's supervision (Source: Statements by the Governor of North Darfur, reported by Sudanese media) 4. At least 11 people killed, including a woman and a two-year-old child, and four others wounded in night attacks on the Alini and Lake No areas in the Ruweng Administrative Area in South Sudan, with 972 head of cattle looted and 33 homes burned (Source: Acting Ruweng Minister of Information Tony Chol Ayat, via Radio Tamazuj) 5. Families and activists in Blue Nile report that the joint security cell arrested three people at dawn on Monday from the southern neighbourhood of the town of Roseires and took them to an unknown destination, as part of a campaign the families say targets people on the basis of kinship ties to fighters in the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement – North (Source: Radio Dabanga; Darfur24, citing families and the Blue Nile civil society initiative) 6. South Sudan begins a five-day simulation exercise, from 19 to 23 October, in Juba, Yei and Yambio to test the response to a possible Ebola virus outbreak, and the Ministry of Health affirms that the exercise is precautionary and does not mean there is a confirmed case in the country (Source: South Sudan Ministry of Health and the National Public Health Institute, via Radio Tamazuj) 7. Sudanese press reports: Minister of Justice Abdullah Derf issues a criminal decree raising the value of full diya (blood money) from 330,000 pounds to 400 million Sudanese pounds, equivalent to the value of one hundred camels, in the first amendment since 2016 (Source: Circulating Sudanese press reports on the decree)

— Editorial Team