How much humanitarian funding reaches Sudanese responders, and who gets a say in how it’s spent? The October 2026 Research Update opens with The Sudan Humanitarian Fund: A Pooled Fund in Transition, published in collaboration with Refugees International. The roundup also looks at who represents Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms and what happens to grants before they reach mutual aid groups. It brings together analysis of the limits of international sanctions, Sudan’s place in a changing world order, security trends across the country and the deeper roots of its protracted conflicts.
Read the full Research Update October.