Saturday, November 7, 2026

📍 From the Field The United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Denise Brown, said in an interview with UN News that power outages following drone strikes halted dialysis sessions for 25 patients at a hospital outside Khartoum that lacks a generator or solar panels, that fuel queues in Khartoum stretch for kilometres, and that hundreds of relief trucks are stuck because of a shortage of fuel. Brown added that two weeks ago she visited a camp in the Abu Shendi area of Blue Nile State, where people told her: "We need food", and that she had to ask them to be patient even though they had left everything behind and have no money.

UN News reported, citing local sources, that drones struck on Tuesday, November 3, an electricity transmission station and the Roseires Dam in Damazin, Blue Nile State, causing widespread outages, and that a strike on a residential area in the city killed two civilians, while strikes in Um Badr in North Kordofan killed two women, injured 10 others, and caused extensive damage to two water stations. In contrast, UN News reported that UNICEF delivered malaria treatment to 765 health facilities in Darfur and West Kordofan, enough for about 800,000 people.

Eyewitnesses told Radio Dabanga that an explosion occurred on Thursday inside a store of "Vortex", a substance used in blasting for artisanal mining, in the Al-Qulubab area of Berber locality in River Nile State, destroying the store, killing three people including two brothers, and injuring two others, with its causes not yet clear. In Central Darfur, the Tawila – Jebel Marra Emergency Rooms Coordination Council and the Darfur Victims Advocacy Organisation and Hope and Refuge for Refugees said that a fire broke out on the afternoon of November 5 in the Kalukiting camp for displaced people in Jebel Marra, destroying between 17 and 20 houses built from local materials, and leaving dozens of families without shelter or blankets, with an urgent appeal to provide tents, tarpaulins and building materials.

1️⃣ Sudan asks the United Nations for legal measures over Al-Burhan's visa Sudan asked the United Nations to take effective institutional and legal measures to ensure the United States complies with the 1947 Headquarters Agreement, following the failure to grant the President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, an entry visa to take part in the General Assembly meetings last September. The request came in a statement delivered on Friday by Minister Plenipotentiary Ammar Mohamed Mahmoud, Sudan's representative to the Sixth Committee, during discussion of item 165 concerning the report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country, in which he said that Secretary-General António Guterres had expressed his concern and urged Washington to fulfil its obligations without Al-Burhan being able to travel, so Foreign Minister Mohi El-Din Salem delivered Sudan's speech on September 28. The statement called for the incident to be officially documented and for consideration of activating the dispute-settlement mechanism in Section 21 of the Headquarters Agreement, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 80/172. (Sources: SUNA via Sudan Now and Al-Ahad, Statement of Sudan's representative to the Sixth Committee of the United Nations) 💡 Quick reading: Turning the visa file from a bilateral dispute into a matter of principle before the General Assembly's Legal Committee puts Washington before the commitment of the United Nations headquarters itself, but it does not guarantee a quick result unless the Secretary-General moves towards the settlement mechanism.

2️⃣ Empty warehouses and 15.4 million people without adequate shelter: an urgent appeal from the Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration The United Nations Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration launched a joint urgent appeal on Friday, in which the head of the International Organization for Migration mission in Sudan, Mohamed Refaat, speaking from Khartoum, said that 16 trucks that arrived in Darfur on Thursday were the last remaining in the organisation's stock, and that its warehouses are now completely empty. According to the appeal, 15.4 million people urgently need shelter, while emergency shelter assistance has reached only about one in every ten people in need, and more than 5.2 million people have returned to their areas to find, in many cases, their homes destroyed or looted and basic services — health, electricity and water — absent. Funding for the 2026 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan, amounting to $2.9 billion, has reached only about 47% as winter approaches. (Sources: UN News, November 6, 2026, Joint appeal of the Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration) 💡 Quick reading: The crisis is no longer a crisis of access as much as a crisis of stock and funding: improved access has revealed the scale of need, so if warehouses are not replenished quickly, the return of millions of displaced people will turn into a second wave of displacement.

3️⃣ The army announces the downing of a drone in West Kordofan and reports of advances around El Obeid The General Command of the Armed Forces announced, in a press circular by the official spokesman on Saturday morning, November 7, that its air defences shot down a hostile drone of the FH-95 type in the skies over the Eyal Bakhit area of West Kordofan State, without the circular naming the party that launched it or its mission; it is the third similar announcement in the state in days, after the downing of a drone south of Al-Khawi on November 5 and another south of Wad Banda on November 2. In parallel, military sources cited by "Ultra Sudan" and "Al-Quds Al-Arabi" reported that the army and supporting forces took control of the Um Arda and Jabal Al-Hashaba areas west and southwest of El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan, following clashes with the Rapid Support Forces, with combing continuing to secure the roads linking El Obeid with Dilling and Al-Khawi, and the Dar Hamar Emergency Room said the advance is continuing on the area's axes. (Sources: Circular of the official spokesman of the Armed Forces, November 7, 2026, Ultra Sudan and Al-Quds Al-Arabi, citing military sources) 💡 Quick reading: Kordofan, with its western and northern wings, has become the theatre of the current field decision, and the escalating presence of FH-95 drones makes air superiority a factor parallel to the ground advance around El Obeid.

— Editorial Team