• World Food Programme returns to Khartoum: The United Nations World Food Programme announced today the return of its country office to the capital Khartoum after three years of war, and the announcement came from Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau following his meeting in Khartoum with Prime Minister Kamil Idris, in the presence of the new Country Director Abdullah Al-Wardat, and Skau said that conditions in the capital have clearly changed and that the airport is operating and people are returning to their homes, while the Programme estimated the number of people suffering acute food insecurity at about 19 million people, warning that food stocks would run out within weeks and of its urgent need for more than 600 million dollars for the next six months, after it provided assistance to 12 million people during the past year (Source: World Food Programme - United Nations) • Climate summit in Antalya: The World Leaders Summit for Climate Action sessions within the United Nations Climate Conference "COP 31" began today, Wednesday, in the Turkish city of Antalya, with the participation of leaders and officials from nine Arab countries including Sudan, and the President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, arrived at the summit venue, where he was received by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, with the summit sessions to continue on Wednesday and Thursday as part of the conference proceedings extending until November 20 (Source: Anadolu Agency, and Sudanese media) • On the ground - West Kordofan and Blue Nile: Field sources said that the army imposed a siege on Rapid Support Forces elements inside the cities of Al-Khoi and Al-Nuhud in West Kordofan and broke their defence lines between the two cities, reaching the villages of Umm Labana and Ankoush in Al-Nuhud locality, and the Dar Hamar Emergency Room confirmed that the army and its allies tightened a security cordon around the two cities and pushed groups of the Rapid Support Forces to withdraw towards Al-Daein and Al-Fashir, and simultaneously warplanes and drones continued for the third day their raids on gatherings of the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in Al-Kurmuk, Geissan and Sali in Blue Nile, while the Governor of Al-Kurmuk, Abdel-Ati Al-Faki, revealed the killing of nine citizens and the injury of others with serious wounds in the targeting by Rapid Support Forces drones of the village of Bani Shako in the Al-Kaili administrative unit (Source: Independent Arabia citing field sources, the Dar Hamar Emergency Room and the Governor of Al-Kurmuk) • New defections from the Rapid Support Forces: The commander of the Third Front Forces "Tamazuj", Major General Hamdan Bashir Hamid, and its second commander, Colonel Awad Haroun, announced the dissolution of their partnership with the Rapid Support Forces and their alliance with the army, and a force led by Captain Jado Mohamed Hamid Shougar also announced its defection from the Rapid Support Forces, attributing the decision to its leadership losing control over it and its subjection to external directives and the presence of foreign elements in its ranks and violations against civilians, and a group of Rapid Support Forces fighters from the Fallata tribe also joined the ranks of the army (Source: Independent Arabia) • Babanusa - Famine declared: The coordinator of the Babanusa Emergency Room, Musa Hamid Osman, officially declared famine in the area in West Kordofan, in an urgent humanitarian appeal in which he called on local and international organisations to intervene immediately to save the population after the complete failure of the agricultural season and the absence of any crop, describing conditions on the ground as having reached a catastrophic stage requiring urgent action without waiting (Source: Babanusa Emergency Room via Ain Al-Haqiqa) • Darfur - New displacement and Al-Malha warns: The General Coordination of Displaced Persons and Refugees said that hunger, scarce rainfall and the failure of the agricultural season are pushing hundreds of families to leave their areas in North Darfur and Marshinj locality in South Darfur in search of food and safety, with hundreds of families arriving during the past weeks to Tawila, Shangil Tobaya and Nertiti and others crossing the border into Chad, while the Council of Emergency Rooms of Al-Malha locality in North Darfur warned that the humanitarian situation is heading towards a certain catastrophe, with thousands of displaced people in the open, the absence of food supplies in the main market and an acute liquidity crisis with the collapse of livestock prices, appealing to humanitarian agencies to provide urgent food and shelter assistance with the onset of winter (Source: Independent Arabia citing the General Coordination of Displaced Persons and Refugees and the Al-Malha Emergency Rooms Council) • UN assessment of needs: The multi-sector assessment report of the International Organization for Migration stated that Sudan's humanitarian crisis has become interlinked across sectors, as 68% of families face gaps in livelihoods, 38% have unmet shelter needs, and 37% in protection, and 38% of families that needed health care were unable to obtain it, with the highest levels of unmet needs concentrated in the Darfur states and parts of Kordofan (Source: International Organization for Migration via Independent Arabia) • South Sudan - Machar trial postponed: The special court trying former First Vice President Dr Riek Machar and seven defendants with him postponed its sessions until November 18 to allow for the official lying-in-state of the late General Joseph Lagu Yanga, whose body lies in the parliament building in Juba, where officials and citizens flock to pay their farewell respects before his official burial on Friday (Source: Eye Radio Juba) • South Sudan - Election security: The United South Sudan Party called on the National Elections Commission to strengthen election security, protect candidates and establish a special court to consider electoral disputes, ahead of the elections scheduled for December 22 (Source: Eye Radio Juba)

— Editorial Team