• The Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, issued a decision striking off the criminal complaints filed by state agencies against Sudanese residing abroad who enter the country to participate in the Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue and relating to their political opinions, granting them temporary procedural immunity from their entry until the end of the dialogue, plus a sufficient period to be determined by the Sovereignty Council (Source: Media of the Transitional Sovereignty Council) • Sudan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Al-Harith Idris Al-Harith Mohamed, said in the Security Council session on Sudan on Friday that ending the war requires disarming the Rapid Support Forces, dismantling their military capabilities and unifying the armed formations into one national army, and that any humanitarian truce requires ending the Rapid Support Forces' control over civilian facilities and homes and stopping the flow of weapons, funding and foreign fighters (Source: Speech of Sudan's representative in the Security Council, carried by Sudanese agencies and newspapers — October 16, 2026) • The head of Sudan's delegation, Ambassador Abdel Ghani Al-Naim, before the 89th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights held in Senegal, called on the Commission to visit Sudan at the earliest opportunity to see firsthand in the field the violations against civilians and the conditions of the displaced and refugees, affirming Sudan's cooperation with African and international mechanisms and its preparation of the National Executive Plan for Human Rights 2026 — 2030 (Source: Speech of Sudan's delegation before the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights — October 18, 2026) • Sudanese in the United States face the approaching expiry of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) set for October 19 of this month, along with the work permits linked to it, amid advice from observers and specialists for holders of the status to contact an immigration lawyer or a trusted legal organisation immediately to explore alternatives such as asylum or adjustment of status (Source: Al-Zawiya Net — October 6, 2026) • A high-level UN delegation visited the city of Kufra in Libya today to discuss the repercussions of the crisis of displaced Sudanese on local services and the humanitarian and health response, in a city that hosts large numbers of those fleeing the war since April 2023 and faces increasing pressure on its basic services (Source: Libya 24 — October 18, 2026) • The UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, warned the Security Council of the continuation of fighting and drone strikes on civilians, while the United Nations counted 20 million people facing acute hunger, among them 200,000 at catastrophic levels, and more than 700,000 displaced people in Tawila in North Darfur suffering shortages of food, water and health care, and the killing of 41 displaced people in a drone strike near the Ethiopian border on October 10 (Source: UN News — Security Council briefing, October 16, 2026) • The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Denise Brown, warned that the severe deficit in rainfall in parts of the country is deepening the existing humanitarian catastrophe, and that humanitarian food and nutrition stocks may run out by the beginning of 2027 without urgent funding, calling for immediate support for smallholder farmers before the winter planting season, especially in Darfur and Kordofan (Source: Statement of the UN Resident Coordinator in Sudan via ReliefWeb — October 15, 2026) • The United Nations World Food Programme and the Kuwaiti Sheikh Abdullah Al-Nouri Charitable Society signed a cooperation agreement worth $500,000 to provide food baskets and food aid to the displaced and affected in Sudan over a full year, targeting about 47,000 people (Source: World Food Programme in Kuwait and Al-Nouri Charitable Society) • The Minister of Human Resources and Social Welfare, Mutasim Ahmed Saleh, said at an event in Khartoum marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Saturday that the poverty rate in Sudan had risen to 73% by last June compared with 21% before the war, and that about 24 million people live below the poverty line, while the International Organization for Migration recorded more than 8.5 million displaced people (Source: Statements by Minister Mutasim Ahmed Saleh — October 17, 2026, and data of the International Organization for Migration) • The United Nations warned in Juba that hate speech and disinformation could undermine the electoral process in South Sudan ahead of the elections scheduled for December 22, 2026, at the launch on October 13 of a national multi-stakeholder platform to coordinate against harmful information and enhance conflict prevention (Source: The United Nations and the Office of the Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa — Juba, October 13, 2026) • The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) intensified its efforts to protect civilians and its political engagement in Rumbek in Lakes State after bloody violence, and a civilian team from the mission visited the city to meet state authorities, community leaders, civil society and humanitarian agencies, while the acting governor of the state, Rin Tueny Mabor, said security forces had been deployed and the situation is now calm (Source: United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) via APO — October 14, 2026)
— Editorial Team