Saturday, September 26, 2026 • Khartoum: air defenses confront drones over northwest Omdurman and East Nile without any announcement of losses, and the army had announced intercepting drones that targeted Omdurman, Khartoum Bahri, Atbara and El Obeid at the start of the week (Sources: Sudan Tribune via Eastleigh Voice) • Gezira: State Governor Al-Tahir Ibrahim Al-Khair receives a delegation of the National Human Rights Mechanism at the guesthouse in Wad Medani and calls for documenting RSF violations and exposing them internationally, and farmers of the Gezira and Managil Scheme complain of fuel scarcity and rising prices (Sources: Sudan News Agency (SUNA) via Fana News; Sudan Horizon) • Red Sea: the collapse of 5 artisanal mining wells in the Uni area — 10 dead and 21 injured, search operations continue for the missing, and the injured were transferred to Port Sudan (Sources: Dar Hamar Emergency Room; the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company via Xinhua) • Kassala: the army announces that air defenses confronted, in the middle of this month, drones that targeted the Khashm El Girba Dam near the Ethiopian border without losses (Source: The Sudanese Army via Sudan Tribune) • Gedaref: the army announces shooting down drones that targeted the Upper Atbara and Setit dam complex in the middle of this month, and the FAO warns of drought affecting up to 70% of the cultivated land in the state (Sources: The Army via Sudan Tribune; FAO via ReliefWeb) • Sennar: the World Health Organization restarts the intensive care unit at Sennar Teaching Hospital with a planned capacity of 9 beds through the SHARE project funded by the World Bank (Source: The World Health Organization via ReliefWeb) • White Nile: a World Food Programme relief convoy that departed Kosti toward El Obeid was attacked on Friday (Source: Eastleigh Voice) • Blue Nile: the government announces the army's recapture of the town of Kurmuk near the Ethiopian border, the army announces destroying 9 RSF combat vehicles south of Al-Kili on Friday, and the RSF for its part announces control of the Sirkum and Bakori bases (Sources: The Sudanese Government; the Ministry of Defense; an RSF statement — via Eastleigh Voice) • Northern: the army announces repelling an attack by suicide drones at dawn on Monday that targeted the headquarters of the 19th Infantry Division, Merowe Air Base and Merowe Dam without human or material losses (Source: The 19th Infantry Division via Eastleigh Voice) • River Nile: air defenses confront drones that targeted the city of Atbara at the start of the week (Source: Sudan Tribune) • North Kordofan: a drone targets a vehicle carrying displaced people from the Al-Dubaiker area near the city of Al-Rahad on Saturday — 24 dead including 8 children according to Sudan Doctors Network, and UNICEF announces that strikes on September 20 destroyed more than 292,000 school textbooks and 40,000 revision books in two warehouses in Sheikan locality that were prepared for distribution with the start of the school year, and the army announces recapturing the town of Sodari, and Reuters monitors an RSF escalation of drone attacks in El Obeid and Umm Rawaba (Sources: Sudan Doctors Network via Eastleigh Voice; UNICEF; Sudan Tribune; Reuters) • South Kordofan: no important new news was reported from the state today, with families continuing to flee their areas toward North Kordofan according to Sudan Doctors Network (Source: Sudan Doctors Network via Eastleigh Voice) • West Kordofan: the World Health Organization announces a sharp decline in cholera — only 8 cases in the week of September 11 compared to a peak of 421 in July, with a total of 2,955 cases and 250 deaths since the outbreak began in Al-Nuhud last May, and the collapse of the Al-Zaraga mine near Al-Nuhud a few days ago killed dozens of miners (Sources: The World Health Organization via ReliefWeb; Xinhua) • North Darfur: a joint relief convoy of the World Food Programme and UNICEF (15 trucks) on its way to El Fasher was attacked in the Al-Koma area last Monday night — 5 relief workers dead and several injured, and the Sudanese Foreign Ministry accuses the RSF while the RSF accuses the army of an airstrike, and OCHA announces an absence of bread in Tawila markets for four consecutive days, and UNHCR: 400 refugees daily cross into Chad from Darfur, Kordofan and Blue Nile (Sources: The World Food Programme and UNICEF via Eastleigh Voice; OCHA; UNHCR via Reuters) • South Darfur: armed clashes in Abu Ja market in the town of Gereida on September 19 — 13 dead and more than 400 displaced according to OCHA, and army airstrikes on the night of September 21 on an RSF logistical base in Nyala, and a delegation from the World Health Organization and the United Nations tours Nyala hospitals (Sources: OCHA; Sudan Tribune; Sudan Times) • Central Darfur: no important news was reported from the state today • West Darfur: no important news was reported from the state today • East Darfur: clashes in the stock exchange market in the city of El Daein on September 19 led to injuries and a partial closure of the market (Source: OCHA) — Editorial Team