• Moscow: The Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, leads Sudan's delegation at the third Russia-Africa Summit being held in Moscow on 28 and 29 October, and the delegation includes the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Finance, the Director General of the General Intelligence Service and the Director General of the Defence Industries System, and al-Burhan is scheduled to address the summit, meet bilaterally with his Russian counterpart and visit the Russian State University for the Humanities (Source: SUNA, quoting Sudan's Ambassador to Russia Mohamed El-Ghazali El-Tijani Siraj) • Khartoum: A delegation of the Eastern Africa Standby Force "EASF", headed by its Director Brigadier Ronald Roywanga, continues its official meetings, as it discussed with the leadership of the Ministry of Defence enhancing regional security and stability, respect for sovereignty and implementation of the Jeddah Declaration, and discussed with the Director General of the Police Forces, Lieutenant General Police (Rights) Amir Abdel Moneim Fadl, enhancing cooperation, building capacities and the role of the police in peacekeeping missions (Source: SUNA) • Government: Prime Minister Professor Kamil Idris directed that higher education centres outside Sudan continue their work until their situations are regularised in accordance with the approved controls, reviewed the efforts of the Ministry of Energy to repair damage to electricity stations, and affirmed the government's commitment to supporting the localisation of vascular surgery, while Sovereignty Council member Lieutenant General Ibrahim Jaber chaired a meeting of the Economic Performance Follow-up Committee (Source: SUNA) • Electricity: The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum said the Al-Markhiyat transformer station in Omdurman went out of service after a drone attack on Tuesday morning that it attributed to the Rapid Support Forces, which led to a wide outage in Khartoum, River Nile and other states, after Monday's attacks on stations in Sennar, Gedaref and Gezira, and the Minister of Energy discussed urgent remedial action and the Governor of Khartoum inspected the damage at Al-Markhiyat, while sources told Sudan War Monitor that the fuel pumping station in Haya in Red Sea State was hit this Wednesday morning by drone strikes that caused slight damage to a main pipeline, with no official report so far on the scale of the damage, and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs "OCHA" expressed its concern over the continuation of these attacks and stressed the protection of civilian infrastructure under international humanitarian law (Source: Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, SUNA, Sudan War Monitor, and OCHA via UN News) • Nyala: The "Emergency Lawyers" group said a drone struck Tangonj Market in the Domaya neighbourhood in western Nyala on Monday evening and resulted, according to its tally, in the killing of 102 civilians and the injury of 113 others, including women and children, and it held the Armed Forces responsible and demanded an independent investigation, while Médecins Sans Frontières said Nyala Teaching Hospital, which it supports, received 36 bodies, 21 of them of people in civilian clothes, and treated more than 150 injured people, and that a second strike hit a residential neighbourhood, and it stressed that markets and homes are not legitimate military targets, and no statement has been issued by the army leadership so far clarifying the circumstances of the strike according to the published reports, and the toll and responsibility have not yet been verified by an independent party (Source: Emergency Lawyers, and Médecins Sans Frontières) • El Fasher on its first anniversary: The Governor of North Darfur, Al-Hafiz Bakhit, described what El Fasher witnessed as a crime of genocide and demanded accountability for those involved, protection of the displaced and the delivery of assistance, and the spokesman of the Darfur Regional Government, Ahmed Ishaq Shanab, told SUNA that holding the leaders of the Rapid Support Forces accountable is a condition for achieving justice for the victims of El Fasher, while a UN official warned of the risk of a repetition of the El Fasher atrocities in Kordofan and Blue Nile, and the Embassy of Sudan in Berlin issued a statement on the occasion (Source: SUNA, the Darfur Regional Government, and the United Nations) • Food and assistance: A joint statement published by the US State Department in the name of 32 countries, including the United States, Britain, France, Germany and the concerned European Commissioner, warned of an alarming deterioration in food security and a risk of famine in the coming months, and estimated the number of people suffering acute food insecurity at about 19.5 million people, i.e. 41% of the population, including 5 million at emergency levels, and warned that the number of children suffering severe acute malnutrition could exceed 825,000 children, and called on the two parties to the conflict to lift all obstacles to assistance across the lines of fighting and the borders, including air access to Darfur, and to protect humanitarian workers and not strike civilian infrastructure, while in contrast the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the food situation is reassuring, that the country has not witnessed a famine, and that the strategic stockpile and the ongoing agricultural operations are sufficient to provide needs, with measures to fill the gaps in areas affected by a shortage of rainfall, and it welcomed humanitarian support and affirmed facilitating the arrival of assistance and visas, and rejected the politicisation of assistance and the use of a humanitarian truce to impose a settlement (Source: Reuters on the joint statement published by the US State Department, and the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs via Al Jazeera) • United Nations: Secretary-General António Guterres said the war, which began as a struggle for power fuelled by external parties, has turned into a war for which civilians are paying the price, and he called for an immediate halt to the fighting across Sudan, protection of the population and ensuring the unhindered arrival of assistance, and he stressed preserving Sudan's unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and that the Sudanese should determine the future of their country through an inclusive political process (Source: UN Secretary-General via the X platform) • British sanctions under follow-up: Today's headlines continued to follow the British Foreign Office's listing of 15 new Sudanese names on the sanctions list, including Al-Nour Ahmed Adam "Al-Qubba", Ali Rizqallah "Al-Safna" and Al-Misbah Abu Zaid Talha, with asset freezes and travel bans, and London said the measures target those responsible for grave violations of international humanitarian law in Gezira, El Fasher and Zamzam camp, with £15 million allocated to support survivors of sexual violence and the humanitarian response (Source: British Foreign Office via Sky News Arabia) • Health and humanitarian: The national polio vaccination campaign led by the Ministry of Health with the support of the World Health Organization and UNICEF aims to protect 11 million children, with a first phase from 26 to 29 October targeting 6 million children in 107 localities across 12 states and a second phase at the beginning of November targeting 5 million children in Darfur and West Kordofan, and SUNA headlines reported the vaccination of more than one million children on the first day of the response, while the World Food Programme, according to OCHA, warned that a funding shortfall could deprive about 900,000 people of food assistance starting from next month (Source: World Health Organization, OCHA, and SUNA) • South Sudan: The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan called, in its statement before the Third Committee of the General Assembly in New York on 27 October, for urgent collective action to prevent a renewed conflict and secure lasting peace regardless of the electoral timetable, and the Commission's chair, Yasmin Sooka, said the political settlement established by the Revitalised Peace Agreement of 2018 is being systematically dismantled through legislative reforms that concentrate power in the hands of the President, and she warned that elections do not justify cancelling the guarantees of inclusive governance, power-sharing and the protection of civilians (Source: UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan via ReliefWeb) • South Sudan: The National Elections Commission announced today, Wednesday, that voter registration will begin at the beginning of next November in preparation for the general elections scheduled for 22 December 2026, and its chairman, Gabriel Bol Deng, said, after briefing African Union officials in Addis Ababa on the preparations, that everything is ready to launch registration across the country despite a funding shortfall for civic awareness and logistical arrangements, while the African Union pledged to send election experts to support the Commission (Source: South Sudan National Elections Commission)

— Editorial Team