Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris attended the Emotional Recovery Festival on September 26, 2026, organized by the Ministry of Culture, Information and Tourism with the Mahmoud in the Heart group. The government statement said the event carried the theme “A nation for all its people, hearts with no place for hatred.”

The programme included national songs described as part of Sudan’s cultural memory and theatre performances around tolerance and national recovery. The statement lists the event’s content and some officials who attended; it gives no audience count, budget or measurement of the festival’s social impact.