• Washington after Geneva: The US President's Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs, Massad Boulos, said the United States has only one interest in Sudan, which is reaching an agreement that ends the conflict and supports a transitional process that allows the Sudanese people to determine their own destiny, and he expressed deep concern over the continued fighting, the escalation of the drone war and the worsening risks of famine and displacement, stressing the Sudanese people's need for a humanitarian truce that guarantees unhindered access for aid and a safe and voluntary return for millions of displaced people, in a post that followed the sixth consultative meeting in Geneva, during which he also discussed with Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Walid Al-Khuraiji coordination to support ending the conflict and building the efforts of the Quad and the Quintet mechanism towards a truce leading to a permanent ceasefire and an inclusive dialogue (Source: Massad Boulos via the X platform and the US State Department, as reported by Nabd Sudan) • Nyala at dawn today: Field sources reported that the Sudanese Air Force carried out at dawn today, Saturday, an airstrike targeting a systems and information headquarters belonging to the Rapid Support Forces in the Al-Rahman neighbourhood in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, which led to the destruction of the headquarters, with no confirmed information so far on the scale of human losses, and no official comment had been issued by either side on this specific strike as of the afternoon (Source: Sudan Plus via field sources) • First buses from Khartoum to Kadugli since the war: Travel buses carrying passengers coming from Khartoum arrived on Friday evening in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan, in the first overland trip of its kind between the two cities since the war broke out, after a long stoppage of trips on this route due to security conditions, amid anticipation over the continuation of the trips and their link to road conditions (Source: Sudan Plus) • Sudanese-Turkish military cooperation: Turkish Defence Minister Yaşar Güler and the Chief of the Turkish General Staff, General Selçuk Bayraktaroğlu, received in Ankara the Commander of the Sudanese Land Forces, Lt. Gen. Malik Al-Tayeb Khojali Al-Nil, who is visiting Turkey at the invitation of the Commander of the Turkish Land Forces, Lt. Gen. Metin Tokel, and the Commander of the Turkish Land Forces attended the Defence Minister's meeting, while the Chief of Staff held a separate meeting with the Sudanese commander as part of the visit programme (Source: Nabd Sudan) • Ankara - the first anniversary of the fall of El Fasher: The Embassy of Sudan in Ankara held a press conference on Friday on the first anniversary of the El Fasher massacre, in cooperation with the Turkish workers' union Hak-İş and the General Federation of Sudanese Workers' Unions, and Ambassador Nader Youssef said El Fasher lived through 18 months of siege before its fall in October 2025, citing United Nations documentation of the killing of more than 6,000 people in the first three days, and demanding an independent international investigation, accountability for those responsible and a halt to the military support provided to the Rapid Support Forces, while a joint statement by the two federations demanded that the United Nations and the Security Council classify the Rapid Support Forces as a terrorist organisation, impose sanctions on its leaders and financiers and reject any parallel government (Source: Atheer News) • Sudan condemns the Al-Karak church attack: The Government of Sudan strongly condemned the terrorist attack that targeted the Greek Orthodox church in Karak Governorate in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and led to dead and wounded - Jordanian Public Security said there were 7 dead and 34 wounded in an attack that targeted a funeral - and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed in its statement Sudan's firm rejection of all forms of violence and terrorism and the targeting of places of worship, and expressed Sudan's full solidarity with Jordan, its condolences to the families of the victims and its prayers for a speedy recovery for the wounded (Source: Sudan News Agency - SUNA - text of the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation) • Sennar - exams and awareness: The Wali of Sennar, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Al-Zubair Hassan Al-Sayed, rang the bell marking the start of the intermediate certificate examinations for the year 2026 in the state, and the General Union of Sudanese Students in Sennar State implemented a water-provision programme for intermediate certificate students, while the Friends of Peace and Development Organisation implemented awareness programmes on war remnants in the Moya Mountains and the Sennar Sugar unit (Source: Sudan News Agency - SUNA) • Gedaref: A joint security force in Eastern Al-Qalabat locality foiled an attempt to smuggle large quantities of drugs and ammunition that were aboard a four-wheel-drive vehicle, after an armed confrontation on the Al-Surf Al-Ahmar road during which the vehicle's driver refused to stop and those aboard it opened fire on the force, before the vehicle disposed of its cargo and those aboard it fled, and the seizures were estimated at about 500 kilograms of the shashmandi drug in sacks and barrels, in addition to boxes of ammunition (Source: Security authorities in Al-Qalabat locality via Nabd Sudan and One Click News) • Women of El Fasher after a year: UN Women said nine out of every ten women's organisations covered by a survey it conducted - 50 organisations supporting the displaced from El Fasher - reported that women and girls are still living in unsafe conditions with continued psychological distress a year after the fall of the city, and that 49 organisations observed signs of psychological distress, and that many women had not received any psychological or legal support since they fled, and the organisation's Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Anna Mutavati, said in a briefing in Geneva: "The scars of violence in El Fasher have not healed", pointing to the continued trauma of sexual violence, the disappearance of family members and the loss of homes and livelihoods, and to the increasing drone attacks in several states, most of whose dead and wounded are women and children (Source: UN Women via UN News and the UN briefing in Geneva) • South Sudan: Five new officials were sworn in before President Salva Kiir Mayardit in Juba on Friday: the Presidential Advisor for International Relations and Foreign Affairs, Hussein Abdelbagi Akol, the Acting Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Ambassador Paul Wick Agoth, the Acting Governor of Warrap State, Angelo Ngot Mayar, the Deputy Director General for Administration and Finance at the Internal Security Bureau of the National Security Service, Lt. Gen. Abiou Guch Dut, and the Chairman of the Board of the Civil Aviation Authority, Tor Deng Mawien, and Kiir called on them to begin immediately organising their institutions, improving service delivery and enhancing stability, as part of the caretaker government's arrangements in preparation for the general elections scheduled for December 22 (Source: Catholic Radio Network of South Sudan and People Daily) • A new accusation from the "Ta'sis" government: The Peace Government loyal to the "Ta'sis" alliance accused, in a statement it issued on Friday through its spokesman, Information Minister Khaled Ahmed Dana, the Armed Forces of carrying out drone strikes on October 21 and 22 that targeted a health centre in the Arab neighbourhood in El Daein, in which three civilians were killed, the Abu Jabra market in East Darfur, in which a child was killed and ten were injured, federal police buildings in Babanusa in West Kordofan, in which two civilians were injured, and administrative offices in Nyala, and it called on the Security Council and human rights organisations for an independent international investigation and to consider imposing a no-fly zone to protect civilians - these figures and responsibility for them have not been independently verified, and an earlier field report had documented civilian injuries in El Daein and Abu Jabra on the same two days without determining the party that carried them out (Source: Statement of the Peace Government loyal to the Ta'sis alliance, as reported by Sudan Times newspaper)

— Editorial Team