• New escalation against electricity: Al-Ghazali transformer station in Merowe locality in the Northern State was targeted by a drone, raising the number of electricity transformer stations targeted within one week to 17 stations in 10 states, and in Kassala the executive director of New Halfa locality, Oshiek Ahmed Ibrahim, described the targeting of the locality's station as systematic work against infrastructure and service facilities, while the attack at dawn on Monday also hit Al-Sahil petroleum station in Aroma, causing damage to vehicles and continuous firefighting operations since the morning, and the Wali of Kassala, Al-Sadiq Al-Azraq, visited the damaged stations, and a citizen from Merowe said Al-Ghazali station was badly hit, with fears for the winter agricultural season (Source: «Sky Sudan» citing eyewitnesses and the statement of the executive director of New Halfa locality; Radio Dabanga) • Cairo hosts «2+2» meetings between Egypt and Sudan: Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Aati received his Sudanese counterpart Muhyi al-Din Salem in a bilateral meeting preceding the quadripartite meeting of the foreign and irrigation ministers in the new capital, and Abdel Aati affirmed Egypt's support for Sudan's unity and territorial integrity and the preservation of its national institutions and the rejection of any attempts to divide it, renewing Egypt's condemnation of the violations in El Fasher and Kordofan, and he stressed the launching of a humanitarian track that ensures the arrival of aid without obstacles, and the two ministers agreed to adhere to the historic water rights of the two downstream countries and to reject any unilateral measures, while Salem expressed his appreciation for Egypt's political, relief and medical role (Source: Official spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry Ambassador Tamim Khallaf — statement relayed by «Al-Masdar») • Istanbul: Turkey offers to contribute to the reconstruction of Sudan through contracting: Turkish Trade Minister Omar Bolat said, following his meeting on Monday with Sudanese Minister of Industry and Trade Mahasen Ali Yaqoub on the sidelines of the 42nd session of the «COMCEC» committee, that the two sides agreed that Turkish contracting companies are able to make substantial contributions to reconstruction and economic recovery, with developing cooperation in energy, transport, ports, airports and infrastructure and benefiting from Sudan's potential in agriculture and mining, and Sudan's representative at the senior officials' meeting, Dr. Issa Tartib Shatir, had requested the support of the committee and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation for Sudan in capacity building and project financing (Source: Turkish Trade Minister Omar Bolat — Monday post; «On Sudan» on the COMCEC meetings) • Coalition for Justice and Accountability demands an independent investigation into the targeting of civilians: The Sudanese coalition condemned, in a statement published on Monday afternoon, the escalating use of drones against civilian sites including markets and electricity stations and described it as grave violations of international humanitarian law, and expressed its concern over reports — which could not be independently verified — of an attack attributed to the Egyptian air force on traditional gold miners in northern Sudan, demanding an independent and transparent investigation and accountability for those responsible and answers from the Khartoum authorities regarding any gold extraction agreements in which Egyptian parties participate, and calling on the international community, the African Union and the United Nations to support independent investigations and protect civilians (Source: Sudanese Coalition for Justice and Accountability — Monday statement via «Victims' Voices») • North Darfur: «Sudan War Monitor» reports the killing of two people on Sunday evening in a drone strike it attributed to the Sudanese army that targeted a civilian transport vehicle loaded with goods coming from Al-Dabba in the Wadi Majrour area in the Al-Hara administrative unit in Al-Maliha locality, and it names the two killed as Mohamed Moser Bakhit Takras and Ali Ismail, without any comment having been issued by the Armed Forces on this report so far (Source: «Sudan War Monitor» citing local sources)

— Editorial Team