• North Kordofan: The Armed Forces announce in a statement today, Friday, control of the Al-Mazroub area after violent battles with the Rapid Support Forces, and an army source tells Al Jazeera that Al-Mazroub was the largest Rapid Support Forces stronghold in North Kordofan State, while the spokesman for the Special Work Forces, Mohamed Didan, tells Anadolu Agency that the area connects North and West Kordofan states and that controlling it serves the goal of cutting the Rapid Support Forces' supply lines (Source: Armed Forces statement, reported by Al Jazeera and Anadolu Agency) • London: Sudan's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Al-Siddig Mohamed Al-Amin, accuses, in a press conference held by the embassy today, Ethiopia of participating alongside the Rapid Support Forces in attacks targeting Sudan, and says his country has exercised a great deal of restraint and "strategic patience" but retains its right to defend itself, recalling that Sudan hosted millions of Ethiopian refugees over many years (Source: Press conference of the Embassy of Sudan in London, reported by Sudanese media) • Blue Nile: The Humanitarian Aid Commission in the region announces the arrival of more than 5,000 displaced families to the cities of Damazin and Roseires during the past three months as a result of the battles near the border with Ethiopia, and says it is expanding shelter centres and establishing new camps amid a shortage of food, medicine and accommodation supplies, and that the new Al-Azaza camp east of Roseires has a capacity of about 5,000 families and 420 families have been transferred to it in cooperation with international organisations, while Al Jazeera's open sources unit monitored, through satellite images up to November 4, the creation of a new shelter site and the expansion of another in the two cities, and the International Organization for Migration estimated the region's displaced at about 119,782 people between January and mid-October (Source: Humanitarian Aid Commission in the Blue Nile Region and Al Jazeera's open sources unit, reported by Ayin) • Drone attacks: Al Jazeera says a wave of drone attacks has claimed the lives of more than 160 people during the past few days, according to doctors and rights groups, and the most violent of them was an attack on Sunday evening on a transport gathering point near the market of Al-Dabba town in West Kordofan State, in which 80 people were killed and 47 wounded were transferred to the city of Al-Mujlad, 30 of whom later died of their wounds, and the administration of the "Tasis" alliance and the "Emergency Lawyers" group accused the army of carrying out the Al-Dabba attack, while "Emergency Lawyers" said drone attacks on Khartoum killed three children on Monday (Source: Al Jazeera, citing medical sources, the Emergency Lawyers group and Agence France-Presse) • Geneva – Khartoum: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration warn today, Friday, that millions of Sudanese displaced people are threatened with losing emergency shelter as funding runs out and stocks are depleted, and they say about 15.4 million people urgently need shelter and basic household items while resources allow prioritising assistance to only about 10% of them, and only 936,000 people have received assistance so far, and the head of the International Organization for Migration's mission in Sudan, Mohamed Refaat, says from Khartoum in a UN briefing in Geneva that the organisation distributed this year more than 40,000 tonnes of aid "but our warehouses are completely empty now", noting that Sudan remains the world's largest displacement crisis with about 8.6 million internally displaced people and more than 4.6 million who fled across borders, and that the 2026 needs and response plan of $2.9 billion has been funded by only about 47% (Source: Joint statement by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration, reported by Reuters) • South Sudan: Juba is preparing to host the South Sudan Oil and Power Conference on November 24 and 25, and places bilateral partnerships at the heart of its plan to expand production from about 174,000 barrels per day currently to 230,000 barrels in the near term and 450,000 barrels in the longer term, with 14 exploration blocks available to investors (Source: Statement of the South Sudan Oil and Power Conference via APO Group)

— Editorial Team