Tuesday

October 20, 2026

Armed conflicts and attacks

Sudanese civil war

Abyei border conflict

Amiet market massacre

The death toll in the market drone attack in Abyei on the border of South Sudan and Sudan yesterday rises to 220. (Sudans Post)

Blue Nile campaign

The Sudanese Army says that they have repelled an attack by the Rapid Support Forces and Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North (SPLM–N) on the Blue Nile state. (Sudan Tribune)

War crimes in the Sudanese civil war

The Rapid Support Forces launches a drone strike on a power plant in Tendelti in Sudan's White Nile State, knocking out the main transition line connecting North Kordofan. (Sudan Tribune)

Disasters and accidents

At least 14 people are killed and 20 others are injured after a bus and a truck collide head-on in Natore District, Bangladesh. (Xinhua)

Twelve people are killed and 30 others are injured after a bus crashes into a truck near Cairo, Egypt. (Xinhua)

A leak of glycidyl methacrylate from a chemical tank at a terminal in Toledo, Ohio, United States, forces nearly 1,000 residents to evacuate and prompts shelter-in-place orders for more than 50,000 people in Toledo. (Associated Press) (EPA)