Tuesday, November 10, 2026

📍 From the Field 19 agricultural emergency rooms in the Darfur states announced exceptional challenges facing the current agricultural season, from delayed planting due to delayed financing to crop damage due to the interruption of rainfall and the increase in pests. Jalal al-Din Abkar Yusuf told Radio Dabanga that 2026 is one of the worst years in Sudan due to low rainfall and drought, explaining that the target had shrunk from more than 1,800 feddans to 1,100 feddans for more than 1,000 beneficiaries, and that intermittent rains had weakened the germination of crops and damaged some of the planted areas (Source: Radio Dabanga, November 9). Harsh living conditions pushed thousands of families to flee from Mershing to Tawila, Shangil Tobaya and Nertiti, while others crossed the border towards Chad fleeing hunger and the lack of livelihoods, according to what Radio Dabanga reported. The official spokesman for the General Coordination of Displaced Persons and Refugees in Darfur, Adam Rujal, told Radio Dabanga that the number of arrivals between October 15 and November 6 reached about 538 families comprising 3,227 people according to field monitoring, with new families continuing to arrive and humanitarian needs increasing in a worrying manner (Source: Radio Dabanga, November 9). In North Darfur, the Al-Malha Locality Emergency Room Council today launched an urgent appeal, in which it said that the scarcity of cash liquidity, the collapse in the prices of livestock affected by drought and the lack of food supplies in the main market had pushed large numbers of citizens to flee, and that citizens had been unable to provide a living as a result of scarce rains and the failure of the agricultural season, while the Jebel Issa area Emergency Room confirmed the death of 420 heads of livestock last month due to drought (Source: Al-Malha Locality Emergency Room Council and volunteers in Jebel Issa, via Ultra Sudan, November 10). The United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Denise Brown, said in an interview with UN News that she visited two weeks ago a camp in the Abu Shendi area in Blue Nile State where people told her that they needed food, and that hundreds of trucks loaded with aid were stuck due to a shortage of fuel (Source: UN News, via Radio Dabanga, November 4).

1️⃣ Blue Nile: Nine civilians killed in a drone strike on the village of Bani Shako in Kurmuk Nine civilians were killed and others seriously wounded this morning, Tuesday, in a drone attack that targeted the village of Bani Shako in the Al-Kaili administrative unit in Kurmuk locality in the Blue Nile region in south-eastern Sudan. The Commissioner of Kurmuk, Abdel Ati Mohamed Al-Feki, said that the drones belonged to the Rapid Support Forces, and that the victims were on their way to displacement camps in the city of Damazin, while no comment had been issued by the Rapid Support Forces on the incident so far. Al Jazeera's correspondent in Sudan, Waddah Al-Taher, said that a source in the army reported that the Armed Forces had carried out extensive airstrikes on positions of the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North in the region, with strikes intensified on areas in Kori, Sally, Geissan and Kurmuk. The Sudanese Observatory for Human Rights condemned the strike and called for an immediate halt to strikes targeting civilians, villages and populated areas. (Sources: Al Jazeera - Sudan, November 10; Anadolu Agency via A News, November 10; Saudi Press Agency - SPA, November 10; Eastleigh Voice, November 10) 💡 Quick reading: Analysis - The transfer of intensive drone fighting to the Kurmuk border axis places civilians fleeing towards Damazin at the heart of the targeting, and widens the Blue Nile front in parallel with the Darfur and Kordofan fronts.

2️⃣ Darfur: Doctors Without Borders records more than 28 thousand measles cases and warns of the collapse of immunisation and health care Doctors Without Borders said, in a report it published on November 4, that the facilities it supports across the four Darfur states recorded 28,481 measles cases and 1,913 whooping cough cases between January 2024 and April 2026. The organisation reported that 75% of those infected with measles had not received vaccination, and that children under the age of five represent 69% of the cases, while South Darfur alone recorded more than 10,600 suspected measles cases during the first four months of 2026. The Sudanese Observatory for Human Rights warned, in a report dated November 6 based on the organisation's data, of the spread of cholera, measles and whooping cough in Darfur and Kordofan in conjunction with a wide collapse of the health system, noting that 37% of health facilities in Sudan are out of service and that about 21 million people cannot obtain basic or life-saving medical care according to Doctors Without Borders estimates. (Sources: Doctors Without Borders, Report November 4, 2026; Sudanese Observatory for Human Rights, Report November 6, 2026, via Ultra Sudan) 💡 Quick reading: Analysis - The figures for measles and whooping cough, two diseases that can be prevented by vaccine, measure in practice years of interruption of routine immunisation since 2023 more than they measure the spread of a new epidemic.

3️⃣ South Sudan: Juba hosts a regional ministerial energy panel within the Oil and Energy Conference on November 24 and 25 It was announced today in Juba that ministers and senior officials from South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Djibouti will participate in a ministerial panel entitled Regional Cooperation, Investment and Energy Security, within the South Sudan Oil and Energy Conference in its seventh edition on November 24 and 25. The panel includes South Sudan's Minister of Petroleum, Awow Daniel Chuang, Uganda's Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Monica Musenero Masanza, the Governance Advisor at the Office of the Kenyan President, Sylvester Kasuku, and Djibouti's Director of Hydrocarbons, Wahib Ali Bolo. The conference comes while South Sudan seeks to raise its oil production from about 174 thousand barrels per day to about 230 thousand barrels per day in the near term, with 14 exploration blocks on offer and a longer-term goal of 450 thousand barrels per day. (Sources: Energy Capital & Power via APO Group, Juba, November 10, 2026) 💡 Quick reading: Analysis - Juba's bet on regional partners in financing and infrastructure reflects its need for broader export and financing alternatives, while the export line through Sudan to Port Sudan remains the artery actually in place so far.

— Editorial Team