• The President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, met today, Monday, at the presidential palace in Khartoum with the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Nabil Fahmy, in the presence of Foreign Minister Mohieddin Salem, and they discussed developments in the situation in Sudan. Fahmy affirmed the League's commitment to supporting Sudan's sovereignty and the unity of its territory, backing its national institutions and supporting reconstruction efforts, on his first visit to Sudan since taking office about three months ago (Source: Transitional Sovereignty Council statement) • Britain imposed sanctions today, Monday, on 15 military commanders, militia leaders and security officials from both sides of the conflict in Sudan, accusing them of sexual violence, torture and attacks on civilians. London said the step comes as part of its efforts to hold perpetrators of violations accountable (Source: Reuters) • The Sudanese electricity company said drone strikes today, Monday, hit power stations in south-eastern Sudan and cut power from the states of Sennar, Gedaref, White Nile and Gezira, warning of a threat to the stability of the national grid. The company attributed the attacks to the Rapid Support Forces, and there was no immediate comment from the Rapid Support Forces on the accusation (Source: Reuters citing Sudan Electricity Holding Company) • The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights documented the killing of at least 306 people and the injury of hundreds in drone strikes during the first three weeks of October. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called on both sides of the conflict to adhere to a ceasefire and to the rules of international humanitarian law and to protect civilians (Source: UN News and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) • The UN Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attack on 19 October on Amit market and the Todash area in Abyei, the disputed area between Sudan and South Sudan, in which more than 80 people were killed according to initial UN verification, while the local Abyei authorities announced a higher toll. The Council called for a full and transparent investigation and for those responsible to be held accountable, and affirmed the need for Abyei to remain demilitarised, while the Government of South Sudan summoned Sudan's ambassador in Juba to protest (Source: UN News and Reuters) • Sudan presented 124 investment projects to the Saudi side in the fields of agriculture, livestock, energy, mining, oil and infrastructure, including 77 projects for public-private partnership and 47 projects for direct investment. The Minister of Investment and International Cooperation, Al-Hadi Mohamed Ibrahim, affirmed the government's keenness to remove obstacles to investment and to link projects to balanced development and food security (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA)) • In Chad, Sudanese refugees who fled Darfur more than twenty years ago are still living in Iridimi camp, and some of them are now raising their children in the same camp, with the arrival of about 974,000 new Sudanese refugees since the outbreak of the latest war raising the total number to about 1.4 million. The International Rescue Committee said the decline in funding had forced it to reduce its services in refugee camps despite the rising numbers (Source: Reuters investigation and the International Rescue Committee) • Sudanese families and students in Arab diaspora countries appealed for a reconsideration of the mechanisms for implementing the decision to close the overseas centres of Sudanese universities, demanding the continuation of e-learning and the payment of fees in instalments so that the future of an entire generation is not lost in the exceptional circumstances imposed by the war. The appeal came in an open letter published today, Monday (Source: Sudanese Al-Ahdath newspaper) • The Sudanese journalist Zeinab Mohammed Salih won the 2026 Knight International Journalism Award, given by the International Center for Journalists, in recognition of her independent field coverage of the war in Sudan and her documentation of violations and the humanitarian crisis from inside Khartoum and Darfur. Her reports have been published over more than 15 years in The Guardian, the Financial Times, The Economist and the BBC (Source: International Center for Journalists (ICFJ))
— Editorial Team
