• Blue Nile: The Armed Forces announce the downing of a hostile strategic drone that crossed the border from Ethiopia on Tuesday, November 3, coinciding with ongoing ground clashes in the region between the army and the forces supporting it on one side and the Rapid Support Forces and Sudan People's Liberation Movement – North groups on the other, without additional details in the circular about the location of the downing or the model of the drone (Source: General Command of the Armed Forces — press circular by the Official Spokesperson, carried by "Al-Ahd Online" and "Sudan Now") • West Kordofan: The Armed Forces confirm the downing of a hostile drone of the FH-95 type on Monday evening, November 2, south of the Wad Banda area, and say their air defences continue to protect vital sites and confront air attacks on the various axes (Source: General Command of the Armed Forces — press circular by the Official Spokesperson) • Blue Nile: The 4th Infantry Division announces that it repelled an attack launched by the Rapid Support Forces and Joseph Tuka's group on Monday on the Bakori area on the Geissan axis and Sali on the Kurmuk axis, inflicting losses on the attackers in lives and equipment, and the division commander, Major General Ismail Al-Tayeb Hussein, affirms the continued protection of the region (Source: Sudan Tribune citing a statement by the 4th Infantry Division) • Damazin: The army announces that a group of Rapid Support Forces elements surrendered themselves to its forces in Damazin, the capital of Blue Nile, on Monday, in a development that comes after the defection of Commander Siddig Andar was announced in a video recording obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera (Source: Al Jazeera) • Electricity: Drone attacks on Monday targeted three transformer stations — Halfa El Gedida and Aroma in Kassala State in eastern Sudan and Al-Ghazali near Merowe in Northern State — and caused widespread power outages, raising the number of electricity facilities targeted during the past week to 16 facilities (Source: Addis Standard citing witnesses and local sources; Al Jazeera) • The League of Arab States strongly condemns the Rapid Support Forces' drone attacks on energy facilities in the states of Khartoum, Gezira, Sennar, Gedaref, River Nile and the Red Sea, and warns that the deliberate targeting of power stations and civilian facilities represents a war crime that requires accountability (Source: Statement by the League of Arab States) • The United Nations warns of the repercussions of the continued drone attacks on energy infrastructure: the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, conveys reports of the targeting of two stations in Kassala and a substation in Merowe on Sunday evening after attacks in River Nile, the Red Sea, North Kordofan and Gezira, and says power outages and fuel shortages have disrupted clean water supplies and pushed residents to untreated sources, while the International Organization for Migration estimates the displacement of about 2,000 people from the villages of Kano and Baro in North Darfur during the past week and about 120,000 people in Blue Nile between January and mid-October (Source: United Nations — press briefing by the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, carried by the Saudi Press Agency "SPA") • Al Jazeera map: Al Jazeera's Open Source Unit documents the targeting of 15 power stations in 9 states between October 20 and November 1, from Tindelti in White Nile to Singa, Al-Hawata, Al-Faw, Al-Geneid and Al-Markhiyat, reaching Shendi, Abu Hamad, Al-Dabba and Hayya, and the Sudan Electricity Company warns that the repetition of the targeting threatens the stability of the national grid (Source: Al Jazeera — Open Source Unit) • The Ethiopia file: The Sudanese government had on Sunday filed a complaint against Ethiopia with the Security Council and the African Peace and Security Council, accompanied by documents it said prove the Rapid Support Forces' use of Ethiopian territory to launch suicide and missile drones at civilian objects and power stations, and demanded a halt to these acts and urged the international community to hold those responsible to account, while no immediate Ethiopian response to the complaint was issued and Addis Ababa had previously denied these accusations (Source: Sudan News Agency "SUNA" — statement by the Government of Sudan) • Cairo: Egypt and Sudan renewed, at the conclusion of the third round of the "2+2" consultation mechanism for the ministers of foreign affairs and irrigation on Monday, their rejection of the unilateral management of the Ethiopian Grand Renaissance Dam and affirmed that their water security is indivisible, and Egypt renewed its support for Sudan's unity, sovereignty and institutions and its reconstruction, and condemned the drone attacks on Sudanese infrastructure (Source: Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs — statements by the Official Spokesperson) • Government and economy: The Minister of Finance chairs a meeting of the Macro-Economy Framework Committee to prepare the 2027 budget, the Governor of the Central Bank of Sudan chairs an expanded meeting to address the challenges of gold exports, the Minister of State at Finance moves with the World Bank to secure irrigation for winter projects using solar energy, and the Minister of Energy and Oil says the recent fuel supply gaps were caused by some procedures and are on their way to being resolved, and reveals measures to secure the electricity supply and avoid the effects of the targeting of the stations (Source: Sudan News Agency "SUNA" — Tuesday, November 3 headlines) • The Prime Minister affirms the depth of the deep-rooted fraternal relations between Sudan and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and meets the national expert Dr. Faqiri Hamad Mohamed, and Sovereignty Council member Lieutenant General Ibrahim Jaber affirms the government's support for plans to develop agriculture and praises the positive contribution of the arts to national issues (Source: Sudan News Agency "SUNA") • South Sudan: The Editorial Team had not, as of the time of this bulletin, monitored any important new developments in South Sudan since this morning in the sources that were reviewed (Source: Editorial Team review of today's sources)

— Editorial Team