• Northern electricity under drones again: Drones belonging to the Rapid Support Forces bombed at dawn today, Sunday, the Al-Dabba transformer electricity station in Northern State and Abu Hamad in River Nile State, putting both out of service and cutting power to the two cities and their villages, and the bombing also hit military headquarters and fuel stations in the Al-Multaqa area southeast of Al-Dabba, where a woman was killed near one of the targeted stations, bringing the number of electricity stations bombed by Rapid Support Forces drones in two weeks to 14 stations in nine states (Source: Sudan Tribune, November 1) • Abu Hamad: The locality security committee affirms the continuation of efforts to address the effects of the targeting of the transformer station and to work to return it to service as soon as possible, and calls on citizens not to be drawn behind rumours and to obtain information from official sources, affirming its commitment to protecting citizens and public property and preserving security and stability (Source: Abu Hamad Locality Security Committee, reported by Sudan Now, November 1) • South Kordofan: Reports today, Sunday, of damage to civilian homes in the city of Dilling as a result of artillery shelling carried out by the Rapid Support Forces from their positions north and west of the city, while the army responded with artillery shelling on the attackers' positions around the city, and Air Force aircraft had carried out on Saturday raids on gatherings of the attacking forces in scattered areas of Dilling locality, in a continuing escalation for weeks that has killed and wounded civilians and pushed hundreds of families to flee (Source: Al-Mashhad Al-Sudani citing local sources, November 1; Asdaa Sudan citing military and local sources via Ultra Sudan) • A senior Rapid Support Forces defection reverberates: Major General Siddig Abdel Rahman Andar, commander of Group 15 and head of the mobilisation, rallying and recruitment committee, announced in a video recording broadcast by Al Jazeera on Friday his complete defection from the Rapid Support Forces, his exit from the "Tasis" alliance and his joining of the armed forces, accusing the family of Rapid Support Forces commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo "Hemedti" of turning the forces into a family project controlling money, weapons, the movement of fighters and ranks, and calling on his fighters to take the same step, with no response issued by the Rapid Support Forces leadership to his announcement so far (Source: Al Jazeera; Al-Quds Al-Arabi) • "Sudanair" cancels all Sunday flights: Sudan Airways announced the cancellation of all its scheduled flights to various destinations today, Sunday, November 1, due to a technical fault in one of its aircraft, and called on travellers to contact booking offices to follow up on arrangements for their flights, affirming the continuation of maintenance work in preparation for resuming flights in a safe and regular manner, and the company had cancelled on Saturday the Cairo – Khartoum flight after the aircraft registered ST-MKW went temporarily out of service due to a fault described as limited (Source: Sudanair advisory to travellers, reported by Times News and Al-Tabia, November 1) • Health announces recovery indicators: Federal Minister of Health Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim says in an interview with "SUNA" that the operation of health institutions in Khartoum State has exceeded 85% after about 70% of facilities were out of service in the first year of the war, that 11 states have achieved full health coverage, that the availability of essential medicines has risen from less than 40% to 72% with a target of 85%, and that vaccination coverage rose from 38% in 2024 to 71% by the end of 2025, while the country lost more than 200 ambulances from Ibn Sina Hospital and the ministry recovered more than 280 vehicles that were distributed to the states (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA) – interview with the Minister of Health, in SUNA headlines for November 1) • Reform of the parties law: Today's Sunday coverage of the work of the workshop on reforming the Political Parties Law in Khartoum, organised by the Political Parties Affairs Council under the auspices of the Transitional Sovereignty Council under the slogan "Reforming the 2007 Law: a strategic step towards empowering party work", highlights the direction of the proposed amendments towards tightening oversight of parties' financial resources and sources of funding and controlling external funding and illicit funds, while entrenching consultation (shura) and the peaceful rotation of leadership within parties, with the participation of party leaders, legal experts and academics (Source: Political Parties Affairs Council, reported by Al-Ahd Online and Al-Mashhad Al-Sudani, November 1) • Old currency deadline: The Central Bank of Sudan affirms the continuation of the withdrawal of old editions of the 500-pound denomination in North Kordofan State by depositing them into bank accounts until December 31, 2026, after which they will cease to be a discharge of debt as of January 1, 2027, and the acting manager of the El Obeid branch, Mirghani Hassan Babiker, says the replacement process is proceeding smoothly and calls on citizens not to wait until the end of the deadline (Source: Central Bank of Sudan – Corporate Communications Department, October 31, and coverage on November 1) • El Fasher after a year: The Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale University concludes in a report issued on October 28, covered in today's reporting, that only a small number of civilians remained in El Fasher or returned to it after a year of the Rapid Support Forces' control of the capital of North Darfur, as satellite images showed no notable activity in any of the nineteen health facilities it examined, and no visible movement in eight of nine main markets, with the report noting that image analysis does not allow counting the population or monitoring all activities (Source: Yale University Humanitarian Research Lab, reported by Sudan Now) • South Sudan: The Editorial Team had not monitored, up to the time of this bulletin, any new documented developments from official sources in Juba since the morning bulletin, which covered the return of President Salva Kiir Mayardit from the Moscow summit and the warning by the Mayor of Juba against the arbitrary closure of shops, so there is nothing new to publish in this file without a documented source (Source: Editorial Team monitoring of official South Sudan sources up to midday on November 1)

— Editorial Team