• Moscow: The Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and Russian President Vladimir Putin affirmed their keenness to move relations to the level of a strategic partnership, and al-Burhan proposed creating a free economic zone on the Red Sea coast to store fuel and wheat and grant Russia sites for investment in extracting gold, copper and other metals, while Putin said Sudan is an important partner for Russia and that trade exchange rose 25% between January and August 2026, with the intention to increase scholarships for Sudanese students and a call to stop combat operations and reach a political settlement (Source: TASS and Sputnik agencies, reporting on the Kremlin meeting on Friday, October 30) • From the Russia-Africa Summit: Al-Burhan affirmed the orientation towards a civilian transition and holding free elections after the end of the war, and stressed that achieving peace in Sudan must be purely Sudanese, away from dictates and external interventions (Source: Sudanese newspaper headlines issued on Saturday morning, October 31) • Shendi: The Shendi transformer electricity station in River Nile State is still completely out of service after it was targeted on Friday morning by a drone carrying four missiles that led to the destruction of the transformers, and the targeting also hit the Nile reserve depot and a hangar belonging to the air defence and resulted in the injury of one member of the armed forces, and it is the third electricity station to go out of service within five days (Source: Statement of the Shendi Locality Security Committee, reported by Anadolu Agency) • United Nations: The Secretary-General's spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, said that civilians across Sudan are trapped between escalating drone strikes, the authorities' repression and severe deprivation, based on the report of the international fact-finding mission on the besieged city of El Obeid, pointing to strikes last Monday on a market and a residential neighbourhood in Nyala in South Darfur that resulted in the killing of dozens and the injury of more than 150, and strikes near Geneina airport and in South Kordofan and Gezira, and that humanitarian agencies reached more than 17 million people during the first nine months of the year despite the funding shortage (Source: United Nations — briefing by the official spokesperson) • Foreign Ministry: The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced, on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow on 28 and 29 October, that it possesses evidence of the participation of Ukrainian military personnel alongside the Rapid Support Forces and the arrest of a number of Ukrainian snipers and trainers in Kordofan (Source: Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs) • Diplomacy: Sudan took over the presidency of the political organ of the East African Standby Force "EASF" for 2027 by consensus of the member states, and was re-elected a member of the executive council of the International Civil Defence Organisation in Geneva until 2030 (Source: Sudanese newspaper headlines and Sudan Tomorrow, Saturday, October 31) • Darfur and Kordofan: Sudanese press reports spoke of the Rapid Support Forces announcing control over three new areas in North Darfur and casualties in an attack on the Thursday market north of Al-Khoi in West Kordofan, while the University of El Fasher revealed a toll of violations during the siege and fall amounting to 60 martyrs and 150 missing (Source: Sudanese newspaper headlines issued on Saturday morning, October 31) • Decisions in Rapid Support Forces areas: Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo "Hemedti" issued a decision cancelling the civil administrations document and dissolving the founding councils in Darfur and West Kordofan, among decisions that included five states, according to newspaper headlines (Source: Sudan Tomorrow and Sudanese newspaper headlines, Saturday, October 31) • Khartoum: The Governor of Khartoum directed the application of fuel distribution controls to everyone without exception, and Gezira Police denied a rumour of drinking water poisoning and confirmed that its records are free of any report on this matter, while Khartoum approved a European proposal to protect electricity stations, water sectors and hospitals from targeting (Source: Sudanese newspaper headlines and Nabd Sudan) • South Sudan: One person was killed and three others injured in armed clashes on Thursday morning, October 29, in Morobo County in Central Equatoria State near the border with Uganda, and the Ugandan authorities warned residents against travelling to South Sudan for agriculture, charcoal trade and cattle grazing until the security situation improves (Source: Ugandan Daily Monitor newspaper)

— Editorial Team