Wednesday, November 4, 2026

📍 From the Field Eyewitnesses told Radio Dabanga in the town of Al-Abbasiya Tagali in South Kordofan State that a drone strike targeted a fuel station in the middle of the town market at noon on Tuesday, killing at least 4 people and wounding more than 10 others in a preliminary toll, and the wounded were taken to the town hospital for treatment, and the station and a number of cars that were parked inside it at the time of the strike were damaged. Other sources who spoke to Dabanga said the same drone targeted facilities in the town of Rashad, located southwest of Al-Abbasiya Tagali, without clarifying the nature of the targets and losses there.

In Darfur, the spokesman for the General Coordination of Displaced Persons and Refugees, Adam Rijal, told Sudan Tribune that the coordination recorded 45 cases of viral hepatitis in Kalma camp in South Darfur State, at a rate of two to three cases per day, amid a severe shortage of medical services and medicines and a decline in the arrival of aid. Rijal explained that the health deterioration is not limited to Kalma, but extends to the camps of Tawila, El Fasher, Kassab and Fata Borno, and displacement areas in Kordofan and Blue Nile.

In South Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières warned in a statement from Juba dated November 4 that funding cuts and the withdrawal of relief organisations have left about 150,000 displaced people in the Bentiu and Malakal camps without basic services for water, sanitation and primary healthcare, exposing them to the risk of cholera and waterborne diseases. A field assessment by the organisation in Bentiu, which hosts about 111,000 people, documented that about 60 people share each functioning latrine, and that only 109 handwashing stations serve the entire camp, and a displaced woman in the camp named Nisanday Dobol said: "We have suffered from conflict, floods and cholera, and many of us still cannot return to our homes", while the organisation's adviser Rebecca Abang said that garbage sometimes remains without collection for weeks or even months, and that latrines are not always emptied, so waste flows into drainage channels.

1️⃣ Ethiopia orders six Sudanese diplomats to leave the country amid mutual escalation over the Rapid Support Forces and Tigray A senior Ethiopian official told Reuters on Wednesday that Ethiopia had ordered six staff members of the Sudanese consulate in the border town of Asosa to leave the country within 48 hours, without stating a reason for the decision. Sudan accuses Ethiopia of supporting the Rapid Support Forces, while Addis Ababa accuses Khartoum of supporting Tigray rebels, and both sides deny these accusations. The Sudanese government had announced on Sunday that it had filed a complaint against Ethiopia to the United Nations Security Council and the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, accusing it of allowing the Rapid Support Forces to use its territory to launch suicide drones at civilian infrastructure in Sudan. (Sources: Reuters — a senior Ethiopian official and statement by the adviser to the President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council for political and foreign affairs, Amjad Farid) 💡 Quick reading: Analysis — the move from international complaints to the expulsion of diplomats raises the cost of escalation between the two countries, and makes containing it contingent on stopping the exchange of accusations over the two wars before they intertwine into a wider regional conflict.

2️⃣ Intensive night drone attack on Damazin and a woman killed in the targeting of a house in Al-Zuhour neighbourhood The army's ground defences in the city of Damazin, capital of Blue Nile Region, repelled an attack by diving drones that lasted from Tuesday night until dawn on Wednesday, and explosions were heard in scattered areas of the city, and an army source told Al Jazeera that the drones were launched by the Rapid Support Forces, without an official statement clarifying the overall scale of the damage. The government of the region condemned the attack, and its spokesman Saif al-Nasr Min Allah said in a statement that targeting Damazin is a violation of the international laws and norms on the protection of civilians and civilian facilities. Local sources told the Sudanese Observatory for Human Rights that a drone targeted a civilian house in Al-Zuhour neighbourhood on Tuesday evening, killing Ilham Ali Shikan, a mother of three children, and wounding Amal Bashir with varying injuries. (Sources: Government of Blue Nile Region — statement by spokesman Saif al-Nasr Min Allah, Al Jazeera — a source in the Sudanese army, Sudanese Observatory for Human Rights, citing local sources) 💡 Quick reading: Analysis — the repeated targeting of Damazin for a second night, days after the battles of Sali south of the city, places the capital of the region, which hosts large numbers of displaced people, at the heart of the escalating Blue Nile front.

3️⃣ Sudan Doctors Network: The Rapid Support Forces detain 135 medical staff, teachers and university professors in El Geneina The Sudan Doctors Network said in a statement issued on Wednesday, November 4, that the Rapid Support Forces are detaining 47 workers in the medical sector and 88 teachers and university professors in the city of El Geneina, capital of West Darfur State, inside several sites, among them the former headquarters of the UNAMID mission and centres inside the command of the 15th Infantry Division and Ardamata prison. The network demanded disclosure of the detainees' places of detention, allowing them to communicate with their families, ensuring they receive healthcare, and the release of those against whom no legal charges have been brought, reminding that health workers enjoy special protection under international humanitarian law. No comment had been issued by the Rapid Support Forces on the statement by the time the news was published, and the number and places of detention could not be independently verified. (Sources: Statement of the Sudan Doctors Network, November 4, 2026) 💡 Quick reading: Analysis — the detention of medical and academic staff, if confirmed, strikes what remains of health and education services in West Darfur and turns holders of protected professions into a pressure card in the war.

— Editorial Team