• The Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General, Pekka Haavisto, arrives in Khartoum next week at his own request to hold talks with senior state officials, and senior government sources suggest that the file of the missing and detainees will top the agenda of the visit, noting that the lists of missing persons whose names have been verified have exceeded ten thousand people and that the government committee for counting and exchanging detainees has completed its preparations and submitted its report (Source: Al-Muhaqqiq, citing senior government sources) • Australia imposes targeted financial sanctions and a travel ban on four Sudanese — the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo "Hemedti", the former governor of West Darfur, Al-Tijani Al-Tahir Karshoum, and the RSF field leader Hussein Barsham — in addition to financial sanctions on the Al-Baraa bin Malik Brigade, under the Magnitsky human rights regime and against the backdrop of grave violations including targeting civilians, killing, torture and sexual violence, and Foreign Minister Penny Wong calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, the protection of civilians and ensuring unhindered access for aid (Source: Australian Government — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) • The UN Security Council holds today, Thursday, a briefing and closed consultations on the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei "UNISFA" and the situation between Sudan and South Sudan, at which the Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, and the Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Guang Cong, are expected to give two briefings, before the end of the mission's mandate and its support for the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism on November 15, while a report by the Secretary-General warned that Juba's inclusion of the Abyei area in the December 2026 elections could escalate tension with Khartoum (Source: Security Council programme of work and report of the UN Secretary-General, reported by Al-Muhaqqiq) • A source in the Sudanese army says that ground defences shot down at dawn today, Thursday, all the drones that tried to target vital facilities in the city of Khashm el-Girba in Kassala State in eastern Sudan, without any injuries, while another military source said that the drone had been flying in the skies of the area since about five in the morning before it was dealt with, and residents heard loud sounds in the early hours of the morning (Source: Al Jazeera, citing a source in the Sudanese army, and Ultra Sudan, citing a military source) • Update from Damazin: The death of the student Ibrahim Adam Abdullah Khalid, of Al-Salam Model Secondary School, from wounds he sustained in a drone attack that targeted his home on Tuesday evening, and the Blue Nile Region Civil Society Initiative holds the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement responsible for the attack and calls for protecting civilians and stopping attacks on residential areas (Source: Administration of Al-Salam Model Secondary School and the Blue Nile Region Civil Society Initiative, reported by Al-Mashhad Al-Sudani) • Jebel Awlia Locality Police carry out the twelfth security cordon and remove the Qoro and Colombia markets completely — 563 shades and 895 rakouba shelters and 29 shops and 296 kiosks — and seize an integrated system for operating drones and jamming devices inside a workshop that one of the Rapid Support Forces leaders had taken as his home, which was handed over to military intelligence, in addition to antique copper vessels dating back to 1933 that are in the process of being handed over to the competent authorities (Source: Jebel Awlia Locality Police, reported by Al-Ahd Online and Atheer News)

— Editorial Team