Monday, September 28, 2026 • The Ministry of Finance signed a contract with the MTN Sudan telecommunications company to provide the text messaging service, in a step to develop digital communication between the ministry and citizens (Source: Official news headlines — Al-Majd News, September 28, 2026). • Minister of Education: application and payment electronically to extract the secondary school certificate, in a new expansion of the digitisation of education services (Source: Official news headlines — Al-Majd News, September 28, 2026). • The Minister of Culture, Information and Tourism, Khaled Al-Eisair, stressed the importance of employing digital transformation and artificial intelligence in developing the tourism sector, coinciding with the world's celebration of World Tourism Day 2026 under the slogan "The Digital Agenda and Artificial Intelligence to Redesign Tourism", and the hosting by the Soba East archaeological site in Khartoum State of the occasion's events (Source: Official news headlines — Al-Majd News, and Masar Media). • Sudan participated in an Arab meeting organised by the Arab Industrial Development, Standardization and Mining Organization to discuss employing modern technologies in geological exploration, digital transformation and artificial intelligence in the mining sector, represented by consulting geologist Adam Al-Sayed Balila on behalf of the General Authority for Geological Research, while the participants discussed a proposal to establish a unified Arab digital platform for geological and mineral data (Source: Al-Ahd Online newspaper, September 22, 2026). • Omdurman National Bank made it possible to update customer data digitally, while Bank of Khartoum clarified the truth about what was circulated regarding stopping the updating of customer data at branches (Source: Sudan Live, September 27, 2026). • A memorandum was submitted to the Central Bank of Sudan on expatriates' transfers to Sudan directly, in an awaited step to facilitate the flow of remittances through official channels (Source: Sudan Live, September 27, 2026).
— Technology Desk
