• British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband before the General Assembly (delivered September 21): Sudan is "the worst humanitarian crisis of this century"; 33 million need aid; more than 1,000 civilians were killed by drone strikes in the first five months of 2026, and the new drone capabilities are "bought, financed and transported through networks of multiple countries outside Sudan that continue to fuel the war"; and he called for expanding the arms embargo to include all of Sudan — "a merely formal renewal of the embargo is not enough". (Source: British government gov.uk — September 22)
• OCHA (September 23): Escalating displacement and food insecurity with the escalation of violence — clashes at the Bourse market in El Daein (East Darfur) and dead and wounded in Al-Jarida (13 dead and more than 400 displaced at the Abuja market in South Darfur) and Nyala (September 19); drone strikes destroyed two UNICEF warehouses in Shikan in North Kordofan (more than 330,000 educational materials) and El Obeid (September 20–21); and bread has been absent from Tawila's markets for four days and the local food basket rose 13%. (Source: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA — September 23)
• The International Organization for Migration warns (September 14): The common humanitarian supply line that feeds relief organizations in Sudan may run out of shelter and sanitation supplies by the end of the month without immediate funding; Director General Amy Pope: "The entire humanitarian system could collapse within weeks"; and the agency needs 15 million dollars for minimum operations and 42 million for expansion. (Source: International Organization for Migration IOM — published September 22)
• New York (SUNA): Foreign Minister Mohiuddin Salem met (September 21) with the Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services — they discussed economic recovery, reconstruction and voluntary return, and he invited him to work in health, agriculture and durable-solutions projects for the displaced; and he met his Dutch counterpart (a commitment to support stability and continue diplomatic and humanitarian efforts) and his Portuguese counterpart, who affirmed a "positive and constructive" position towards the Sudan file in the Security Council. (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA) via FANA — September 22)
• Egypt in New York: Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty discussed developments in Sudan with his American counterpart Marco Rubio (September 22); and with the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher (September 20) — he stressed unhindered access for aid, protection of civilians and Egypt's support for OCHA; and before that, an Egyptian–Sudanese–American trilateral meeting discussed de-escalation and a sustainable political settlement. (Source: Egyptian Foreign Ministry via Egypt Forward and Egypt Gazette)
• IGAD at the 81st session of the General Assembly: Executive Secretary Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu arrived in New York (September 21) at the head of a high-level delegation; the priorities: peace in Sudan and preparedness for El Niño; "We must put the Sudanese people at the heart of all efforts and unite behind a single peace process with Sudanese leadership and ownership". (Source: PNTV Africa — September 22)
• Khartoum (SUNA): The UN coordinator Denise Brown at the "Private Sector Recovery Dialogue": Humanitarian response funding reached 1.9 billion dollars in 2025 and 1.2 billion so far in 2026; and the World Food Programme's purchases from Sudanese markets have fallen by half since the start of the war (from about 400,000 tons); and Under-Secretary-General Haoliang Xu (via video) identified three pillars for recovery: transparency about challenges, evaluating successful experiences and clear implementation steps. (Source: SUNA via FANA / Sudan Times — September 21–22)
• South Sudan (a development): Kiir's decree dissolving the transitional government names a caretaker government — 13 caretaker ministers including Cecilia Adut Manyok for Foreign Affairs and Martin Elia Lomuro for Cabinet Affairs; and the dissolution of the National Legislative Assembly and the state governments and the dismissal of the five vice-presidents, with Kiir remaining president until the election of his successor on December 22. (Source: Xinhua / Catholic Radio Network CRN — September 23)
• Voluntary return: 1,174 Sudanese returned from Egypt (Saturday, September 19) via 24 buses under the voluntary return programme with the support of the Zakat Chamber, and preparations for the return of citizens from Libya via the Sallum crossing (including 12 university professors and their families); and the International Organization for Migration: more than 5.1 million Sudanese have returned to their areas of origin (including 930,000 from abroad — Egypt 50%, South Sudan 25%, Libya 10% and the Gulf states 8%) while 8.6 million remain internally displaced. (Source: Eastleigh Voice citing SUNA / Horn Economic Review citing the Displacement Tracking Matrix — September 22–23)
• Geneva: Sudanese — most of them women and including children — gathered (September 19) in front of the "Broken Chair" ahead of the 63rd session of the Human Rights Council, demanding that the world's attention be drawn to the suffering of civilians in Sudan and criticizing the external military support for the parties to the war. (Source: EU Global — September 21)
• In sports in the diaspora: The Sudanese gymnast Mohamed Hassan qualifies for the final of the Pharaohs International Championship in Cairo (18 countries); a double win for Sudan in the fifth round of the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand (the men 3-1 over Guam and the women 2.5-1.5 over Laos); and the under-20 national team opens the CECAFA qualifiers with a 3-0 win over Djibouti in Dar es Salaam. (Source: Sudan Horizon / official website of the Confederation of African Football CAF)
— Editorial Team