• Electricity nears collapse as drone attacks widen: Rights and medical reports say 15 transformer stations have been targeted since the beginning of October, and that Sunday's strikes on the Al-Dabba station in Northern State and Abu Hamad in River Nile State put both of them out of service, and that the Merowe Dam has become the last main source with more than 70% of the country's electricity, while the Sudan Doctors Network warned of the danger of the outages to hospitals, dialysis centres, blood banks and the preservation of medicines and vaccines, and the government and the "Emergency Lawyers" group attribute the attacks to the Rapid Support Forces (Source: Reports by "Emergency Lawyers", the Sudan Doctors Network and Sudan Electricity Holding Company, via Monday coverage) • North Darfur: The International Organization for Migration announces the displacement of an additional 1,150 people over three days from four villages in Umbro locality — Mazbat, Oriri, Tari and Um Haraz — in the period from 29 to 31 October due to the deterioration of the security situation, and says some families went to other sites inside the same locality and that the security situation remains extremely tense and volatile (Source: International Organization for Migration — Sunday statement) • Al-Malha in North Darfur: The Darfur Victims Advocacy Organization condemns the killing of 8 civilians in drone shelling that targeted on Saturday a commercial vehicle carrying civilians on the outskirts of the Al-Hara area on their way to the market, and says eyewitnesses reported the incident and that two of the dead were identified, and demands an immediate halt to the targeting of civilians and transport vehicles and respect for international humanitarian law, and announces that it is in the process of issuing a detailed report after completing the gathering of information (Source: Darfur Victims Advocacy Organization — statement published Monday) • West Darfur: Military sources say a group of Rapid Support Forces leaders defected and moved to areas controlled by the armed forces, and name Mohamed Wadaa, Abdullah Abu Mutamir, Dihiya Hamdan and Adam Al-Quway'i, and attribute the defection to contacts by army intelligence in the state, noting that it was not possible to independently verify the names or numbers and no comment has been issued by the Rapid Support Forces so far, and this comes after Commander Siddig Andar announced his defection on 31 October in a video recording broadcast by Al Jazeera in which he accused relatives of Rapid Support Forces commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo of controlling money, weapons and promotions (Source: "Sudan Now" citing military sources; Al Jazeera — recording by Siddig Andar) • Blue Nile under acute humanitarian pressure: A new health and humanitarian bulletin documents the displacement of about 6,800 people in four days at the beginning of October due to fighting east of Wad Al-Mahi and El Roseires localities, and the killing of at least 31 people, most of them women and children, in a strike near the Abu Shendi site on 9 October and Um Durfa Hospital going out of service on 11 October, and says a mobile clinic recorded 3,185 consultations, more than 99% of whose patients were displaced people, and that malaria represents 57% of consultations at the peak of its transmission season (Source: Sudan Health and Nutrition Humanitarian Bulletin via "ReliefWeb" — November 2) • The Central Bank of Sudan puts forward an initiative to establish a Supreme Council for Exports: The bank says a high-level meeting chaired by the governor discussed the challenges of export proceeds and ways to maximise them, and that the proposal aims to move from partial treatments to an institutional framework linking production, financing, transport, storage, insurance, external marketing and the recovery of proceeds to support foreign-exchange resources, and the bank also put forward, in another expanded meeting chaired by Governor Amina Mirghani Hassan Al-Toum, the establishment of a fund to finance the import of strategic commodities with the participation of banks and relevant bodies (Source: Central Bank of Sudan — press statements) • The government approves three digital draft laws: The Council of Ministers approved the draft laws for Regulating Cybersecurity for the year 2026, Regulating Data and Artificial Intelligence for the year 2026 and Regulating Digital Transformation for the year 2026, presented by the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Communications, and its minister Ahmed Dardeiri Ghandour says they aim to establish legal frameworks to protect digital infrastructure and secure the data of the state and citizens from attacks and breaches (Source: Council of Ministers — statement by the Minister of Digital Transformation and Communications) • The Public Prosecution announces Abdelmoniem Adlan Al-Obeid Tay Allah as a fugitive accused: The Prosecution for Crimes Directed Against the State and Counterterrorism demands that he surrender himself to the nearest police station within a period not exceeding one week from the publication of the announcement, in the context of criminal proceedings under articles of the Criminal Act of 1991 and the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism Act, and calls on the public to help arrest him (Source: Public Prosecution — announcement by the Prosecution for Crimes Directed Against the State and Counterterrorism) • The Auditor General hands his report to the President of the Sovereignty Council: Auditor General Salah Eldin Mohamed Osman says he briefed First Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan on the report for the financial year ending in December 2025, and that the audit covered about 2,150 units that included banks, states, institutions and information systems, and that the application of the "Isali" system contributed to achieving revenues and reducing encroachment on public money, and that Al-Burhan promised to refer the report to the Council of Ministers to prepare an implementation matrix on it (Source: Transitional Sovereignty Council Media — statement by the Auditor General) • South Sudan: President Salva Kiir Mayardit travelled on Sunday to Kenya on his first visit since the dissolution of the transitional government, to hold bilateral talks with President William Ruto focused on preparations for the 22 December elections, regional stability and economic and infrastructural cooperation, according to what presidential spokesperson Arik Aju Deng announced to journalists at Juba International Airport (Source: Office of the President of South Sudan — statement by the presidential spokesperson in Juba)

— Editorial Team