• Electricity: Prime Minister Kamil Idris inspected today, Friday, the Al-Markhiyat transformer station west of Omdurman, and directed that all necessary support be provided to the workers to speed up maintenance and return the station to service after it went out of service following drone targeting, saying that "the drones will not frighten us and will not stop the state's efforts in rebuilding and reconstruction", while the Minister of Energy, Al-Mu'tasim Ibrahim, confirmed the continued rehabilitation of the damaged stations (Source: Sudan Now and Al-Ahd Online) • White Nile: The power outage continues in Rabak and Kosti after a drone attack at dawn on Thursday took the Um Dabaker thermal station out of service; a military source said the defences shot down four drones and that two hit the transformer station without human losses, while the Emergency Lawyers group said that about 13 electricity stations were subjected to attacks during October (Source: Ultra Sudan via Nabd Sudan and Al-Mashhad Al-Sudani, and Emergency Lawyers) • Moscow: The Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, affirmed in his speech before the Russia-Africa Summit that peace in Sudan "must be purely Sudanese without dictates or external interventions", and that the government is preparing for a Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue that paves the way for a civilian transition followed by free and fair elections with regional and international monitoring, accusing regional and international powers of providing political and logistical support to the Rapid Support Forces, and announcing Sudan's aspiration to develop the partnership with Russia (Source: Sudan News Agency - SUNA via FANA News, and Anadolu Agency) • Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday to life imprisonment for eight defendants in a case of illicit arms trafficking and money laundering that included, according to the reasoning of the judgment, deals to supply weapons and ammunition to the Sudanese army to Port Sudan, and among those convicted are Yasir Abdel Rahman al-Atta and Salah Abdallah Mohamed Salah, known as Salah Gosh, with fines, confiscations and deportation after serving the sentence, and the acquittal of two defendants (Source: Emirates News Agency - WAM via CNN Arabic) • Blue Nile: The International Organization for Migration said in its update published on 29 October that 119,782 people from 23,598 families were displaced inside Blue Nile State between 11 January and 15 October 2026, an increase of 21% over the August assessment, and the largest numbers are from the localities of Qeissan, Kurmuk, Bau and Wad al-Mahi, and Damazin and Roseires host the largest number of displaced people (Source: International Organization for Migration - Displacement Tracking Matrix, via Addis Standard) • Kassala: A joint force of the regular agencies freed 71 hostages and arrested 3 defendants suspected of involvement in human trafficking and extortion, in an operation in the Hilla Wad Ba'ou area in Khashm al-Qirba locality, under the supervision of the State Police Director, who confirmed the continued pursuit of human trafficking networks (Source: Sudan Now and Sudan Platform) • North Darfur: The Karnoy local emergency rooms announced the killing of 4 people and the wounding of 3 others in drone attacks that targeted the Shartba and Tawqi areas on Tuesday and Wednesday, which the rooms attributed to the Rapid Support Forces, with talk of ongoing attacks and looting of livestock in the area (Source: Karnoy Emergency Rooms via Al-Mashhad Al-Sudani) • South file: There are no new confirmed developments from South Sudan since the morning in the approved sources until the preparation of this bulletin; and what some platforms are circulating today about a strike on the Amiet market in Abyei dates back to the attack of 19 October, and is not presented here as new news (Source: Editorial Team monitoring of Al Jazeera, Reuters and the Associated Press sources)

— Editorial Team