• Washington — Sudanese diaspora in America: The US Department of Homeland Security told CBS News and CNN that Sudanese covered by Temporary Protected Status (TPS) retain, for the time being, protection from deportation and work permits, despite the official expiry date of the programme falling today, Monday, October 19, and the Department said that final decisions on Sudan and Ukraine "will be issued in due course" and that migrants enjoy protection until then. (Source: US Department of Homeland Security via CBS News and CNN, carried by Sudanese News and Khartoum Sport — October 19, 2026) • Khartoum: The Prime Minister, Dr Kamil Idris, issued a decision forming the National Mechanism to Combat Cybercrime, chaired by the Assistant Attorney General and with the membership of the relevant bodies, to combat cybercrime and harmful publishing and to monitor content across media and social media platforms and take the necessary preventive and legal measures. (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA) — October 19, 2026, via Khartoum Sport) • Displacement and return figures: The International Organization for Migration recorded in its update published today that the number of internally displaced persons in Sudan reached 8,585,611 people in the eighteen states, while the number of returnees reached 5,273,334 people in nine states, 82% of them returning from internal displacement and 18% from abroad, and about half of the displaced and returnees are children under eighteen. (Source: IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) via ReliefWeb — update October 18, 2026, published October 19, 2026) • Security Council: After its open meeting on Sudan, the Council moved to closed consultations in which it heard a briefing by the Secretary-General's Personal Envoy, Pekka Haavisto, on his contacts with the two parties to the conflict and regional and international actors and on de-escalation and confidence-building efforts, while Ethiopia rejected Sudan's accusations and described them as baseless, and Sudan's representative, Al-Harith Idris, said the war will end with the defeat of what he described as the externally backed rebellion and called for measures against those who supply the Rapid Support Forces with weapons, money and mercenaries. (Source: Official UN coverage of the Security Council meeting; reports on the closed consultations — October 16 and 17, 2026) • Geneva: The United Nations confirmed that the Sixth Consultative Meeting to enhance coordination of peace initiatives and efforts on Sudan will be held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on October 21, with the participation of 27 key officials and about 80 participants from states and international organisations, co-hosted by Switzerland and the Office of the Personal Envoy Pekka Haavisto, preceded on the afternoon of October 20 by a preparatory meeting on the humanitarian situation, and to be followed by a press conference and a possible joint statement with agreed action points. (Source: UN press briefing in Geneva — October 16, 2026) • Cairo — Sudanese diaspora in Egypt: The spokesman for the Preparatory Committee for the Sudanese Dialogue, Othman Mirghani, said the committee met Egypt's Ambassador to Sudan, Yasser Sorour, and his deputy to discuss prospects for joint consultation in support of the dialogue process, noting that Egypt hosts large numbers of Sudanese affected by the war and a number of political groups residing in Cairo, and that the participation of those groups in the Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue will have an important impact. (Source: Sudan Horizon — statements by Othman Mirghani) • Humanitarian operations: The World Food Programme condemned an air strike that on October 3 targeted two trucks contracted to it that were carrying food aid from Al-Dalanj to Kadugli in South Kordofan and resulted in the killing of a driver, affirming that the two trucks bore clear humanitarian markings and calling for an immediate and impartial investigation and protection for humanitarian workers, while Sudan's humanitarian appeal for 2026 has received only about $1.2 billion of the $2.9 billion required. (Source: World Food Programme (WFP); UN News) • South file — Juba: The United Nations in South Sudan announced that the United Nations Population Fund received 1.5 million euros from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations for the period from October 2026 to September 2027, to support access of reproductive health supplies and dignity supplies to health service delivery points and to address gender-based violence in Jonglei, Unity, Upper Nile and Western Equatoria states, serving about 350,000 women and girls and persons with disabilities and displaced people. (Source: United Nations in South Sudan — UNFPA — October 2026)

— Editorial Team