• Sovereignty Council Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan announced that he had sent a letter to US President Donald Trump in which he affirmed Sudan's commitment to the peace efforts sponsored by Washington, and the government's readiness to work with all parties for a just and lasting peace that preserves Sudan's sovereignty, its unity and the dignity of its people (Source: Al-Burhan's official post on the X platform, carried by CNN Arabic and Sudanese newspaper interests today) • Sudan held talks with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Barham Salih, on the challenges facing internally displaced persons and Sudanese refugees in neighbouring countries, at a time when the UN refugee agency affirms that there is no military solution in Sudan and that peace, a humanitarian truce and dialogue are the path to ending the world's largest displacement crisis (Source: Sudanese newspaper interests — SPA, and UN News) • In Bangkok, Minister of Finance Gabriel Ibrahim discussed with the President of the Islamic Development Bank Group, Muhammad Al Jasser, resuming cooperation and supporting recovery and reconstruction, including settling the financial situation, accelerating the Gedaref water project and the Single Treasury project grant, on the sidelines of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank (Source: Tasamuh News) • On relations with Egypt, the foreign ministers of the two countries, Badr Abdelatty and Mohiuddin Salem, affirmed in a phone call respect for each country's sovereignty and territorial integrity after the border incident, while al-Burhan formed a fact-finding committee from the prosecution and the judicial and security bodies to investigate the killing of Sudanese mining workers on the border (Source: Transitional Sovereignty Council Media) • By sovereign decree, al-Burhan formed a national team for negotiation on the Abyei area, headed by Sovereignty Council member Abdullah Yahya, with Foreign Minister Mohiuddin Salem as deputy chairman; its task is coordination with the African Union and the United Nations, managing bilateral and multilateral negotiations with South Sudan, and building a modern database for the file (Source: The published sovereign decree — Sudan Today) • The Government of Sudan extended the opening of the Adre crossing with Chad for humanitarian aid for an additional three months, from October 1 to December 31, 2026, and the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, welcomed the decision, describing the crossing as a lifeline for Darfur, with more than 1,300 trucks carrying more than 50,000 tons passing through in the first eight months of the year (Source: Statement of the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)) • In South Sudan, Rwandan peacekeepers within the UN mission UNMISS provided free medical care to 946 residents of the Luri-Rokwe area and its surroundings in Juba County over two days, including consultations, treatment and awareness of Ebola symptoms and prevention (Source: Ukweli Times citing UNMISS) • The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan warned of increasing risks to next December's elections due to renewed violence and the shrinking of civic space, after its chair, Yasmin Sooka, visited Bor and northern Jonglei and heard testimonies from survivors about killing, sexual violence, displacement and family separation (Source: UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan) • UNMISS announced that a military court in South Sudan sentenced a soldier to 10 years in prison, demotion and dismissal for kidnapping and killing a national UN staff member in December 2025, and the head of the mission, Anita Kiki Gbeho, described the ruling as an important milestone for accountability for crimes against UN staff (Source: United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS))
— Editorial Team
