• A letter from Al-Burhan to the Sultan of Oman: Sultan Haitham bin Tariq received a written letter from the President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, concerning bilateral relations between the two countries, and it was received by the Minister of the Royal Court, Khalid bin Hilal Al-Busaidi, during his reception today in Muscat of the Minister of Finance, the envoy of the President of the Sovereignty Council, Dr. Gibril Ibrahim, and the meeting reviewed bilateral relations and ways to strengthen them in a way that serves common interests (Source: Saudi Press Agency - SPA, via Fana News, October 25) • The Foreign Minister reviews the outcomes of the COMESA summit: The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ambassador Mohi El-Din Salem, said the final statement of the twenty-fifth COMESA summit in Harare described the Rapid Support Forces as a rebellious militia and supported the Hope Government's plans for recovery and sustainable development, and that Prime Minister Kamil Idris delivered Sudan's speech before the summit and held bilateral meetings with the presidents of Zimbabwe, Kenya and Zambia and the Secretary General of COMESA, affirming that Sudan is capable, with its African partners, of achieving economic, trade and industrial integration (Source: Sudan News Agency - SUNA, via Fana News, October 25) • El Fasher after a year - a new Amnesty International report: Amnesty International said civilians in El Fasher are still suffering detention, torture and limited access for humanitarian aid a year after the Rapid Support Forces took control of the city, and that testimonies from residents who fled recently spoke of schools being turned into detention centres, tight monitoring of movement and unlawful killing, and that the number of those who remained in the city is less than 70,000 people compared with more than a million before the war, and the organisation's Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, said the Rapid Support Forces' claim that El Fasher is safe for the return of civilians is far from the truth, and the organisation called for an immediate ceasefire, the deployment of an international force to protect civilians and a halt to arms transfers to all parties (Source: Amnesty International via PANA Press Agency - PANA, October 25) • Wad Madani and Umm Ruwaba - new drone attacks today: A military source said the army's air defences confronted at dawn today, Sunday, four suicide drones that tried to target fuel depots in the Umm Alila area east of Wad Madani in Gezira State and shot them down before they reached their targets, and witnesses confirmed hearing the sounds of the First Infantry Division's ground anti-aircraft guns in the sky over the city, while field sources reported that drones today targeted two fuel stations in the city of Umm Ruwaba in North Kordofan, after a similar attack yesterday targeted travel buses in the city (Source: A military source and eyewitnesses via Ultra Sudan, and field sources via Nabd Sudan, October 25) • Gedaref - an official toll for the collapse of the Al-Shuhada mine well: The Sudanese Mineral Resources Company announced the death of two miners and the injury of three others following the collapse of an abandoned well at the Al-Shuhada mine in the Salmin area in Gedaref State, and said the miners entered the well despite it having been stopped from working by a decision of the local authorities and the police, and the company's Environment and Safety Department renewed its warning against entering abandoned and stopped wells, and the Gedaref Resistance Committees had launched an urgent appeal for intervention and the provision of rescue equipment after more than 20 hours had passed since the incident and residents were relying on manual tools in the search (Source: The Sudanese Mineral Resources Company and the Gedaref Resistance Committees via Nabd Sudan, October 25) • Hamdok to Dabanga: The partnership of civilians and the military failed and will not be repeated: The former Prime Minister and head of the Sumoud alliance, Abdallah Hamdok, said in an interview with Radio Dabanga that he was among the strongest believers in the partnership between civilians and the military, but practical experience proved this bet wrong and there is no justification for repeating it, and he stressed that any new peace equation must define a clear role for the security institutions while guaranteeing their professionalism and keeping them away from politics and the economy, and he called for a new social contract and a constitution in whose drafting everyone participates, addressing the issues of equal citizenship, the distribution of wealth and power and the building of one national army (Source: Abdallah Hamdok in an interview with Radio Dabanga, October 25) • South Sudan opens 14 oil blocks to investors: The Ministry of Petroleum in South Sudan announced the availability of 14 oil blocks open for exploration to investors, ahead of the South Sudan Oil and Energy Conference scheduled in Juba on November 24 and 25, and said national production reached about 174,000 barrels per day in June and that the government is targeting 230,000 barrels per day in the near term and 450,000 in the long term, with increasing demand for oilfield services, refining, pipelines and storage to reduce dependence on fuel imports (Source: Energy Capital & Power statement via APO Group, Juba, October 25)

— Editorial Team