• Um Dabaker out of service: Kamikaze drones attacked at dawn today, Thursday, the Um Dabaker thermal station in Rabak, and targeted the main feeders and the control room, so electricity was cut off from White Nile and North Kordofan states, amid the sound of explosions and rising smoke, according to witnesses. (Source: Sudan Tribune) • The Foreign Ministry responds with a new statement: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said today that the Rapid Support Forces intensified in recent weeks their drone attacks on airports, electricity and water stations, hospitals, fuel depots and oil transport lines, and accused the UAE of providing the drones and Ethiopia of the launches taking place from its territory, and affirmed Sudan's right to self-defence and to protect civilians. (Source: SUNA, 29 October 2026) • Figures from the joint conference: Minister of Defence Hassan Daoud Kabroun said more than 20 countries are participating in the war through logistical support, mercenaries, money and drones for the Rapid Support Forces, while army spokesman Brigadier Essam Awad said 162 drone attacks were launched from Ethiopian territory and led to the killing of more than 400 civilians and 102 military personnel. (Source: Al Jazeera quoting SUNA and the joint press conference of Defence, Foreign Affairs, Media and Intelligence in Khartoum) • The United Nations warns of the collapse of the grid: The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs "OCHA" expressed its concern over the continued drone strikes on civilian infrastructure, after a main transformer station serving Khartoum State was hit and previous strikes on stations in Gezira, Sennar and Gedaref, and warned of a threat to the stability of the national electricity grid, and reminded of the obligation to protect civilians and civilian facilities under international humanitarian law. (Source: United Nations — OCHA, briefing 27 October) • 900,000 threatened with losing food: The World Food Programme warned that a funding shortfall will leave about 900,000 people without food assistance starting from next month, and OCHA called for urgent additional funding as the conflict and displacement worsen and drought-like conditions linked to the El Niño phenomenon prevail. (Source: United Nations — OCHA and the World Food Programme) • The polio campaign on its last day of the first phase: The Federal Ministry of Health, with the support of the World Health Organization and UNICEF, is carrying out a national campaign with the novel type 2 oral polio vaccine targeting about 11 million children in October and November, including 6 million children in 107 localities in 12 states in the phase from 26 to 29 October, with the next phase to target 5 million children in Darfur and West Kordofan in the first week of November, and today's headlines reported the vaccination of 3,308,928 children in two days. (Source: World Health Organization and UNICEF via ReliefWeb, 28 October; Sudan news headlines today) • Al-Burhan in Moscow: The Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, arrived today, Thursday, in Moscow at the head of Sudan's delegation to participate in the third Russia-Africa Summit, and is scheduled to address the summit, and he is accompanied by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Finance, the Director General of the General Intelligence Service and the Director General of the Defence Industries System. (Source: SUNA; Media of the Transitional Sovereignty Council) • A North Kordofan convoy and Tunisian assistance: Prime Minister Kamil Idris launched from the Green Square in Khartoum the support and backing convoy heading to North Kordofan State and said: "The drones will not frighten us, and the economic and media war will not frighten us", and a Tunisian assistance plane arrived at Port Sudan airport, while the Governor of the Darfur Region, Minni Arko Minawi, arrived in Malaysia to participate in a humanitarian forum to support Sudan. (Source: SUNA and Sudan news headlines today, 29 October) • Abyei — a UN reinforcement against drones: The Chinese rapid intervention force within the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei "UNISFA" deployed equipment to detect drones and jam them, reconnaissance aircraft and round-the-clock patrols around Amiet Market, in support of a Pakistani infantry battalion, after the 19 October attack on the market, then completed its mission and returned to its camp after the situation stabilised, according to the Chinese Ministry of Defence. (Source: Radio Dabanga quoting the Chinese Ministry of Defence, 28 October) • South file — electricity interconnection with Uganda: South Sudan launched with the African Development Bank the electricity interconnection project with Uganda worth 267 million dollars within the Eastern Africa Power Pool, and began operating electricity imported from Uganda in the border town of Nimule in Eastern Equatoria, in preparation for expanding supplies to Juba and other main cities. (Source: Ministry of Finance and Planning of South Sudan and the African Development Bank)

— Editorial Team