Monday, October 26, 2026 • The Sudatel Group signed a strategic agreement with Ethio Telecom and Djibouti Telecom under the "Horizon Fiber" initiative to build a cross-border terrestrial fibre-optic corridor linking the submarine cable landing stations in Djibouti, via Ethiopia, to the landing stations in Sudan, with multi-terabit capacity and low-latency international connectivity, to enhance international bandwidth capacity and network resilience and support cloud computing services and digital platforms in the region; Sudatel's chief executive, Magdi Mohamed Abdullah Taha, said the project opens a new chapter in the development of telecommunications infrastructure and strengthens digital sovereignty (Source: Data Centre Dynamics, October 2026). • The Saudi company EdfaPay and the Sudanese company Gobravo launched their joint project "SDPay", headquartered in Khartoum, to build and operate a unified digital payment infrastructure in Sudan linking the banks, electronic wallets, telecommunications companies and government collection systems that currently operate on separate systems; its services include points of sale, QR codes, electronic payment gateways, digital wallets, card issuance and expatriate remittances, with electronic identity verification tools, three-dimensional authentication and fraud monitoring (Source: ITWeb Africa, October 22, 2026). • The Ministry of Digital Transformation and Communications announced the opening of applications for 21 jobs in 11 specialised technical fields, including software development, cybersecurity, data engineering, business intelligence, and DevOps, network and infrastructure engineers, with applications to continue electronically via the National Commission for Selection for the Civil Service from October 25 to November 5, 2026 (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA), quoting the ministry's announcement, via Akhir Khabar, October 23, 2026). • A humanitarian operations coordination meeting in Port Sudan and Khartoum warned that the current grace period for registering Starlink equipment is expected to end in November 2026, and called on organisations using residential subscriptions to move to the appropriate enterprise subscriptions and register their equipment properly; the meeting noted the availability of internet services at the IMC complex in El Geneina and at the facilities of the International Organization for Migration and the World Food Programme in Khartoum, and that telecommunications services remain operational in eastern Sudan, in Port Sudan, Kassala, Gedaref, Damazin and Kosti (Source: Minutes of the Sudan Operations Coordination Meeting published on ReliefWeb, October 20, 2026). • The Sudani company signed a contract with the Ministry of Finance to provide text messaging services for the government's electronic collection and payment system "Eisaly", and Engineer Mohamed Kamal El-Din affirmed the company's commitment to providing the highest levels of quality in the agreed digital services and harnessing its smart solutions to support the system's goals, ensuring accessible and advanced services for the Sudanese citizen directly (Source: Al-Nahar Press, October 8, 2026). • A new report on the evolution of financial technology in Sudan warned of the risks of severe concentration in digital services, noting that the five-day outage of Bank of Khartoum's "Bankak" app in October 2026 paralysed trade for millions of users, even though the war accelerated the adoption of digital payments for food, bills and transfers; the report, in contrast, recorded the growth of telecommunications wallets such as Zain's "Bidi", MTN's "MoMo" and Sudani's "Sah" platform, while interoperability remains limited and the shortage of cash withdrawal liquidity remains a main constraint (Source: Genie Capital report on the evolution of financial technology in Africa — Sudan 2026, October 2026).

— Technology Desk