• Khartoum: Postponement of the date for resuming studies in Khartoum State to Sunday, the coming October 18 (Source: Khartoum State Government). • Gezira: Plant Protection continues combating quelea birds through aerial spraying to protect the agricultural season, and the state sets October 18 for the start of studies at the secondary level and November 8 for the basic and intermediate levels (Source: Atheer News / State Media). • Red Sea: The state Governor inaugurates the project of 23 water desalination stations and discusses with the embassies of Russia and Turkey benefiting from international expertise in water desalination (Source: State Media). • River Nile: The school year begins today, Sunday, on schedule in River Nile State, and the state Governor stresses the importance of coordination with the National Human Rights Mechanism (Source: State Media). • Northern: The state is preparing to honour television director Seif El-Din Hassan in an official celebration (Source: State Media). • Kassala: The Autumn Emergency Committee agrees on the importance of putting in place measures to preserve the groundwater basin and rationalise water use (Source: State Media). • Gedaref: The state reviews the preliminary results of the comprehensive social survey (Source: Gedaref State Government). • Sennar: The Federal Ministry of Agriculture intensifies its efforts to combat the quelea bird and supports the state with 28,000 litres of pesticide for the control effort (Source: Federal Ministry of Agriculture). • White Nile: The Humanitarian Aid Commission in the state discusses with World Vision and the United Nations support for clean water and inaugurates a water station at a camp for the displaced (Source: Humanitarian Aid Commission in White Nile). • North Kordofan: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns the targeting of the city of El Obeid with suicide drones (Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation). • South Kordofan: Five members of one family were killed in artillery shelling on the city of Kadugli (Source: Atheer News). • North Darfur: Egypt denounces in the strongest terms the Rapid Support Forces' attack on the Misteriha area and the civilian victims and the destruction of the only health facility that resulted from it (Source: Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs). • Blue Nile: The United Nations condemns an attack on the Wad Al-Mahi camp for the displaced that resulted in the killing and wounding of dozens of civilians (Source: United Nations). • Darfur and Kordofan: The Early Warning Network warns of the extension of the famine risk to South Darfur and the continuation of the food emergency in areas of North, West and East Darfur and North and South Kordofan during the harvest season (Source: Early Warning Network / FEWS NET). — Editorial Team