• Al-Burhan meets Gabon's intelligence chief: Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan met on Sunday the director of the intelligence service of the State of Gabon, Gerard Ongambi Ongay, and the meeting addressed strengthening bilateral relations, developing security cooperation between the two countries and coordinating efforts to confront security challenges in the region, while the Gabonese official conveyed to al-Burhan the greetings of his country's president and his wishes for Sudan's security, stability and development (Source: Sudan News Agency «SUNA», 1 November) • Khartoum Locality approves urgent transport measures: Khartoum Locality approved a package of urgent measures to ease the transport crisis in the locality, at a time when the capital is witnessing increasing pressure on transport movement amid the fuel and electricity crises (Source: Sudan News Agency «SUNA», 1 November) • Prince Osman Digna Port records notable operational indicators: Prince Osman Digna Port in the city of Suakin recorded notable operational indicators in operating activity, according to what the official agency reported in its follow-up of the activity of the port overlooking the Red Sea (Source: Sudan News Agency «SUNA», 1 November) • Ukraine file escalates with Kyiv's denial: Foreign Minister Muhyi al-Din Salem said in an interview with «Sputnik Africa» relayed by «Sudan Tribune» that Khartoum possesses «conclusive material evidence» of the participation of Ukrainian snipers and trainers in supporting the Rapid Support Forces and training their elements on drones, and that some of them were captured or killed and weapons linked to them were seized, and that the facts were documented in Security Council records; in return, Ukraine rejected the accusations and said through a spokesman for its foreign ministry that it has no information confirming them and had not received official Sudanese notification of the evidence, and no independent public evidence has been published so far to settle the dispute between the two accounts (Source: Sudan Tribune and Sputnik Africa; coverage 1 November) • Solar energy for agricultural projects at state expense: Chairman of the Sovereignty Council Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan directed the Ministry of Finance and the concerned authorities to provide solar energy systems for all mechanically irrigated agricultural projects with government financing, with the aim of ensuring the operation of irrigation operations and supporting production during the winter season amid declining rainfall and the difficulty of providing fuel and electricity for irrigation equipment, according to what the adviser to the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, Amjad Farid, announced, without mechanisms for identifying the targeted projects or a timetable for installation having been announced yet (Source: Saudi Press Agency «SPA», 1 November; Matarees News citing the adviser to the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council) • Al-Jazira tightens fuel distribution: The Wali of Al-Jazira State, Al-Tahir Ibrahim Al-Khair, heralded a near easing of the fuel crisis in the state, and, while inspecting petrol distribution at Al-Wajiha station in the popular market in Madani, directed strict adherence to queue priority and the prevention of any favouritism in dispensing, and called for increasing the number of fuel stations and allocating separate stations for the different vehicle categories — private cars, rickshaws, tuk-tuks, Amjad vehicles and motorbikes — to reduce congestion (Source: Sudan News Agency «SUNA», relayed by coverage 1 November) • Khartoum turns to solar for water and industry: The Wali of Khartoum, Ahmed Osman Hamza, discussed with a delegation from the Omani company «Afaq Al-Mustaqbal» the establishment of solar power stations to operate drinking-water purification sources and wells and to provide electricity for industrial cities and service institutions, with emphasis on making use of technical studies to identify priority projects amid the current electricity supply crisis (Source: Al-Mashhad Al-Sudani, relayed by Solarabic, 1 November) • South Sudan: The Editorial Team had not, up to the time of this bulletin, monitored any new documented developments from official sources in Juba since the midday bulletin, so there is nothing new to publish in this file without a documented source (Source: Editorial Team monitoring of official South Sudan sources up to the afternoon of 1 November)

— Editorial Team