Monday, November 2, 2026

📍 From the Field In the far north of Al-Malha locality in North Darfur State, a humanitarian update issued by Al-Tafa'ul Charity Organization for Aid and Development on October 31, 2026 said that families from the Al-Hara area are being displaced across rugged desert distances on primitive donkey carts, with an average of 15 cases of malnutrition among children, women and the elderly recorded in each single cartload, after the last food stocks ran out and supply routes were cut off. The spokeswoman for the Al-Malha Emergency Room, Safa Yusuf, said, in figures carried by Radio Tamazuj in early October, that about 6,200 children in the locality are suffering from malnutrition, including 1,500 cases of severe acute malnutrition, and that treatment centres have been operating since June without therapeutic foods or essential medicines, while the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) confirmed that famine conditions had been detected in El Fasher and Kadugli, and a joint statement by the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Programme and UNICEF said that about 19.5 million Sudanese face acute food insecurity.

In Blue Nile region, the Humanitarian Health and Nutrition Bulletin published via ReliefWeb on November 2, 2026 said that fighting in the east of Wad Al-Mahi and Roseires localities in early October displaced about 6,800 people in four days, and that many families were displaced twice in six weeks and are now concentrated around the city of Roseires and the Azaza area. The comprehensive mobile clinic team of the SAPA association in the field reported that it had recorded 3,185 consultations, more than 99% of them for displaced people and 57% of them malaria cases at the peak of its transmission season, and that it is the only health provider currently operating in Azaza, and that its urgent priorities are malaria medicines, mosquito nets, drinking water, sanitation and nutrition supplies.

1️⃣ Drones target two electricity stations in Kassala and a widespread power outage in eastern Sudan The two transformer electricity stations in New Halfa and Aroma in Kassala State were subjected, at dawn on Monday, to drone attacks that led to fires breaking out, the two stations going out of service and power being cut across the whole state, and reports also emerged of a station in Merowe in Northern State being targeted, with no official statement yet issued on the scale of the damage or losses. The attacks come as part of a series monitored by the United Humanitarian Network Observatory (UNHO) between October 26 and November 2 that hit electricity and fuel facilities in several states. (Sources: Al-Sharq, quoting eyewitnesses; Anadolu Agency, quoting eyewitnesses; United Humanitarian Network Observatory (UNHO)) 💡 Quick reading: Analysis — the shift of targeting to the stations of the east expands the electricity crisis from an intermittent supply crisis into direct pressure on water, hospitals and services in states that were a haven for the displaced.

2️⃣ Sudan files an official complaint against Ethiopia with the Security Council and the African Peace and Security Council The Government of Sudan filed an official complaint against the Government of Ethiopia with the United Nations Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council, against the backdrop of what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs described as a flagrant aggression from inside Ethiopian territory against civilian sites and objects and electricity stations in a number of states, which caused civilian victims and the disruption of essential services. The Foreign Ministry said the complaint was accompanied by documents confirming the Rapid Support Forces' use of Ethiopian territory to launch suicide drones and drones equipped with missiles, based on a report by the Advisory Council of the Sovereignty Council that documented 70 attacks with 187 drones launched from Asosa, Bahir Dar and the Karamuk – Gizan area between February 15 and October 27, which left 484 civilians killed and wounded and 176 military personnel killed, while Ethiopia denies the accusations and affirms its respect for Sudan's sovereignty. (Sources: Sudan News Agency (SUNA) — statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and report of the Advisory Council of the Sovereignty Council) 💡 Quick reading: Analysis — moving the file to the Security Council and the African Peace and Security Council turns the drone attacks from a recurring military incident into a documented question of international responsibility, and places Addis Ababa before a test of denial with evidence, not with statements alone.

3️⃣ Egypt and Sudan affirm in Cairo the unity of their water security and reject unilateral moves regarding the Renaissance Dam Egypt and Sudan held in Cairo, on Monday, the third round of consultations of the "2+2" mechanism for the ministers of foreign affairs and irrigation, and the two sides affirmed that Egyptian and Sudanese water security is a single indivisible unity, and renewed their rejection of unilateral moves in the eastern Nile Basin, considering that Ethiopia's unilateral management of the Ethiopian dam in the absence of a binding legal mechanism represents a continuing threat to the two downstream countries. The two sides also affirmed their rejection of any threat to Sudan's unity and territorial integrity and their rejection of the establishment or recognition of parallel entities, and condemned the targeting of Sudanese infrastructure, especially electricity stations and water facilities, with drones they said were launched from one of the neighbouring countries. The Egyptian delegation was headed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty and Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hani Sewilam, and the Sudanese delegation by Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohieddin Salem and Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Ismat Qurashi. (Sources: Joint statement of the Egyptian-Sudanese "2+2" mechanism consultations in Cairo, November 2, 2026) 💡 Quick reading: Analysis — the timing of the consultations, on the day of Khartoum's complaint against Addis Ababa and the Kassala attacks, links the water and electricity files in a single downstream position and gives Sudan broader regional political cover for its United Nations file.

— Editorial Team