• Khartoum: Prime Minister Kamel Idris inspected the Al-Markhiyat transformer station west of Omdurman and directed that the necessary aids be provided for the workers and that its rehabilitation be accelerated after it went out of service following its targeting by drones, and the state's Ministry of Education adopted 160 marks as the minimum for admission to the first secondary grade in the geographic government schools (Source: SUNA; Cabinet Media; Khartoum State Ministry of Education) • Gezira: The state's Ministry of Finance concluded in Wad Medani the workshop for preparing the 2027 budget, and the Governor of Gezira praised the management of public money and the achievement of more than 6,100 solar energy projects within the 2026 budget, and the ministry announced that the new budget targets health, education and water and works on amending the resource-sharing law and creating new revenue vessels (Source: Gezira State Ministry of Finance, Economy and Manpower) • Red Sea: The conclusion of the first round of the national campaign to respond to the polio epidemic in the state, the round that targeted about 191,898 children under the age of five in all the state's localities with support from the World Health Organization and UNICEF (Source: SUNA) • Kassala: The joint force in the state freed 71 hostages and arrested 3 suspects active in human trafficking and extortion, in a raid operation in the Hilla Wad Baao area in Khashm el-Girba locality, under the supervision of the state's Police Director (Source: Kassala State Police) • Gedaref: The state completed its arrangements for the primary school certificate examinations with the participation of 44,000 male and female pupils, and the coverage rate of the polio campaign in the state reached 88% on its third day (Source: SUNA) • White Nile: The state's Governor inspected the Um Dabaker thermal station in Rabak after it was targeted by drones, and the station's director said the attack led to the burning of the boiler and damage to units 1, 2 and 4 and the complete shutdown of the station and damage to four main transformers, and the director of the White Nile and North Kordofan electricity network said repairing the damage could take months, and the Civil Defence announced that the fire had been brought under control (Source: Sudan Tribune; Sudanese Electricity Distribution Company) • Blue Nile: The commissioner of Wad al-Mahi said that about 13 drones targeted mining sites, a market and service facilities in the locality, leading to the burning of a gasoline tanker and damage to water basins for gold extraction, and the International Organization for Migration announced the displacement of 119,782 people from various areas in the region since last January (Source: Sudan Tribune; International Organization for Migration) • North Darfur: Five people were killed, including two women and a child, and three others were injured in drone attacks on Kornoy locality, which targeted a gathering of civilians in Shartba and the Qadir area, along with a ground attack on the Tuqi area and a communications blackout there (Source: Kornoy Emergency Rooms Coordination Council via Sudan Tribune) • North Kordofan: The state's Governor witnessed the graduation of a new batch of the Popular Resistance mobilised forces, and the state was affected by an electricity outage following the Um Dabaker station going out of service (Source: SUNA; Sudan Tribune) • Central Darfur: An assessment by Save the Children in Central Jebel Marra showed that 57% of the surveyed children suffer stunting linked to chronic malnutrition and 15% suffer wasting, and that 43% of them had been ill during the two weeks preceding the survey, while 69% of the surveyed families depend on unsafe water (Source: Save the Children)
— Editorial Team
