Sunday, November 8, 2026

📍 From the Field The Dar Hamar Emergency Room reported, in a statement dated Sunday, November 8, violations against civilians in the Al-Kubra area of Al-Nuhud locality in West Kordofan State, including attacking the market and breaking down the doors of shops to bring in military vehicles, shutting down Starlink satellite internet networks, and taking citizens at gunpoint towards the Eyal Bakhit area in the Al-Khawi countryside. The room said that shutting down Starlink isolates the area and limits residents' ability to communicate and convey what is happening, while these accusations could not be independently verified and no comment was issued by the Rapid Support Forces regarding them in the available sources.

In Darfur, the head of the International Organization for Migration mission in Sudan, Mohamed Refaat, speaking from Khartoum, said that 16 trucks arrived in Darfur on Thursday and were the last remaining in the organisation's stock, adding: "Our warehouses are completely empty now" after distributing more than 40,000 tonnes of aid this year. The Deputy Representative of the United Nations Refugee Agency in Sudan, Abu Bakr Jallo, speaking also from Khartoum, said that three out of every four internally displaced people are women and children, and that a tent for a woman who has lost everything "means dignity, privacy and safety for her and her family", while humanitarian agencies can help only one in ten people in need because of a lack of funding.

In North Darfur, the Sudan Doctors Network reported that more than three thousand people were displaced from the Mastariha area after attacks the network attributed to the Rapid Support Forces, including drone attacks and ground incursions, which resulted in the burning of homes and looting of property, leaving thousands of civilians without shelter and food.

1️⃣ The army detains Ahmed Haroun, former chairman of the National Congress Party, wanted by the International Criminal Court Two officials in the National Congress Party, the former ruling party in Sudan, told Reuters on Sunday that the army has detained Ahmed Haroun, the Islamist leader and chairman of the party. Haroun is wanted by the International Criminal Court under an arrest warrant issued in 2007 that includes charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. The announcement came days after his public appearance in an interview via "Sudan Podcast" that sparked wide controversy, and the Emergency Lawyers group had demanded in a statement dated November 6 that the authorities immediately disclose his legal status and the circumstances of his release from detention, while no immediate official clarification was issued on the reason for the new detention or the place of his detention. (Sources: Reuters, Emergency Lawyers statement) 💡 Quick reading: Analysis — Haroun's detention brings the file of the former regime's leaders and international justice back to the forefront, and puts the relationship between the army leadership and the Islamists under a new public test unless a transparent official clarification is issued regarding his legal status.

2️⃣ Kordofan tops the field: a fourth drone downed in a week, battles around Al-Khawi and an announced advance in Al-Mazroub The Armed Forces announced, in a circular carried by the Sudan News Agency (SUNA), that its air defences shot down on Saturday a hostile drone of the "FH-95" type in the skies over the Eyal Bakhit area in West Kordofan State, then announced on Sunday the downing of a drone of the same type east of Wad Banda, the fourth announced to have been shot down in the state within a week. The spokesman for the Special Work Forces in the West Kordofan sector, Mohamed Didan, said the forces fought a battle that lasted three hours in the vicinity of the city of Al-Khawi, after the army announced on Saturday control of Eyal Bakhit, while Al Jazeera said the army announced on Friday control of Al-Mazroub in North Kordofan and a military source described it as the largest stronghold of the Rapid Support Forces in the state, and full control of the vicinity of Al-Khawi could not be independently verified. (Sources: SUNA via FANA, General Command of the Armed Forces via Sudan Now, Al Jazeera) 💡 Quick reading: Analysis — The army's announced focus on cutting the Rapid Support Forces' supply lines between North and West Kordofan makes the Al-Khawi – Al-Nuhud – Al-Mazroub axis the key to the road towards Darfur in the next phase.

3️⃣ Sudan asks the Community of Sahel-Saharan States to classify the Rapid Support Forces as a terrorist organisation Sudan called on the countries of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States to condemn the atrocities attributed to the Rapid Support Forces and classify it as a terrorist organisation, and to prevent the passage of logistical support, weapons and mercenaries through their territories. This came in the speech of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ambassador Moawia Osman Khalid, who headed Sudan's delegation at the twenty-second ordinary session of the Executive Council of the Community, held on Saturday, November 7, in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. The Undersecretary gave a briefing on the situation in Sudan in which he said the country has witnessed, according to SUNA, campaigns of ethnic cleansing and systematic starvation by the militia and mercenaries it brought in from many countries, welcoming the reactivation of the Community after a period of absence. (Sources: Sudan News Agency – SUNA, Tripoli, 8-11-2026) 💡 Quick reading: Analysis — Khartoum is moving the battle over the legal classification of the Rapid Support Forces to a broad regional platform that includes neighbouring countries and supply routes, seeking to turn political condemnation into practical commitments on the borders.

— Editorial Team