• Disputed defection: Sudanese media reported today, Tuesday, the announcement by Lieutenant General Khaled Nour Al-Daim Bireish of his defection from the Rapid Support Forces and his siding with the Armed Forces, after about 13 years inside the Rapid Support Forces, which he joined in 2013 among the army officers who contributed to founding its administrative and operational structures, while the official spokesperson for the Rapid Support Forces, Al-Tayeb Khalil, denied the news and described it as a malicious rumour promoted by enemy rooms to sow doubts within the ranks (Source: Anadolu Agency via Sudanese Echo, and the denial by the RSF spokesperson via Al-Sudaniya News and Sudan Independent) • UNICEF warns of drones and drought: The spokesperson for the United Nations Children's Fund, James Elder, said in a briefing in Geneva today, Tuesday, that drones and drought are striking Sudan's children together in an unprecedented attack, noting that two-thirds of the child victims, numbering 400 children killed or injured this year, fell in drone attacks, and that at least 15 strikes targeted power stations in October alone, without a single day passing in its last week without a strike, and that the shutdown of stations stops water pumps and water treatment and spreads diseases, pointing out that UNICEF's response in Sudan is funded at only a third of what it needs (Source: UN Newsroom in Geneva - UNICEF, and EFE Agency) • West Kordofan: Local sources told Darfur24 that the Armed Forces intensified their air strikes on the city of Al-Nuhud and surrounding villages on Monday, with no fewer than seven air sorties, while the Sudan Founding Alliance "Tasis" announced, through its official spokesperson Ahmed Taqad Lisan, the killing of 20 civilians and the injury of dozens of others in a drone attack it said the army carried out on Monday morning in the city, which also led to the destruction of a commercial truck (Source: Darfur24, and statement of the 'Tasis' Alliance via Al-Tanweer newspaper) • South Darfur: At least eight people were killed on Sunday in tribal clashes between members of the Rizeigat and Habbaniya tribes in the Al-Rams area, south of Al-Sunta locality, according to eyewitnesses who spoke to Darfur24 on Monday, in a renewal of tension in the area against the background of recurring disputes over livestock theft and ownership of land and pastures and grazing routes (Source: Darfur24) • North Darfur: The Sudanese Observatory for Human Rights accused, in a new report titled "North Darfur: They Destroyed the Hospitals Then Hunted the Wounded", the Rapid Support Forces of destroying and vandalising health facilities in three localities, recording the destruction of Umbro Hospital and the destruction of or damage to health centres in Umbro, Karnoi and Al-Tina, depriving thousands of residents of basic medical services, and called on the international community and the Security Council to open independent investigations into the attacks on civilians and basic infrastructure (Source: Sudanese Observatory for Human Rights, via Eastleigh Voice) • South Sudan and the Security Council: The UN Security Council holds today, Tuesday, an open briefing on the political and security situation in South Sudan, presented by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the "UNMISS" mission, Anita Kiki Gbeho, based on the Secretary-General's report on the period from July 16 to October 15, 2026, with the participation of the African Union High Representative for the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea, Jakaya Kikwete, and a representative of civil society, and the Council is to vote the day after tomorrow, Thursday, on renewing the mandate of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei, "UNISFA" (Source: Eye Radio Juba, and Security Council agenda via Al-Balad News) • SUNA: The Social Safety, Takaful and Poverty Reduction Commission participated in the 2026 International Symposium on Global Poverty Reduction Partnerships in the Chinese capital, Beijing, and the Commission's Director of Planning, Policies and Follow-up, Manal Sheikh Al-Din Hassan, presented the experience of the "Direct Cash Social Support Programme for Poor Families", which was selected among the distinguished experiences in the seventh session of the Global Initiative for Best Practices in Poverty Reduction, and the former Consul General of Sudan in Jeddah, Ambassador Kamal Ali Osman, said in an interview with SUNA that the consulate had acquired an official headquarters owned by the state after decades of working in rented premises (Source: Sudan News Agency - SUNA)

— Editorial Team