• Blue Nile: The army's ground defences confronted kamikaze drones launched towards the city of Damazin, the capital of the region, and a source in the army told Al Jazeera that the drones were launched by the Rapid Support Forces, without their numbers or the scale of the damage and losses having become clear so far, and without an official statement explaining the results of the interception operation (Source: Al Jazeera — a source in the Sudanese army, carried by "Sudan Plus") • The Ethiopia file: A report by the Transitional Sovereignty Council documents 70 attacks with 187 suicide drones launched from Ethiopian territory this year alone, which targeted residential complexes, hospitals and power and fuel stations and left about 500 civilians killed and wounded, in the context of the complaint Sudan filed against Ethiopia with the Security Council and the African Peace and Security Council, while Ethiopia denies these accusations (Source: Agence France-Presse citing a report by the Transitional Sovereignty Council and a statement by the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs) • Diplomacy: Foreign Minister Mohiuddin Salem asked the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Nabil Fahmy, to conduct an independent international investigation, supervised by the League of Arab States, the United Nations and the African Union, into the drone attacks launched from Ethiopia, during his meeting with him in Cairo on Tuesday (Source: Sudanese press reports on the meeting between the Foreign Minister and the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States) • South Kordofan: The state government condemned the shelling of the fuel station in the city of Abbasiya Tagali, which left martyrs and wounded among civilians (Source: Sudan News Agency "SUNA") • The Joint Force mourned its operations commander on the Kordofan axis, Brigadier Haroun Marsal Abu Taka, who was killed in the Battle of Umm Shu'ayra, and North Darfur State mourned him (Source: "SUNA" via Sudanese newspaper headlines) • West Kordofan: The spokesman for the Special Work Forces, Mohamed Didan, confirmed that the Umm Maraheik area in Al-Khuwei locality "has become free" after the army imposed its full control over it on Tuesday following clashes with the Rapid Support Forces, an area located on the border between West Kordofan and North Kordofan states and linking the supply lines in the region, without immediate comment from the Rapid Support Forces (Source: Anadolu Agency — statements by the spokesman for the Special Work Forces) • Government and services: Sovereignty Council member Ibrahim Jaber chaired a meeting of the Economic Performance Follow-up Committee, Higher Education announced the results of special admission and the admission of the children of employees at government universities, the Khartoum Minister of Health launched a convoy to perform 15 open-heart surgeries for children at Ahmed Qasim Hospital, and the Monitoring and Follow-up Committee in River Nile State denied a rumour that a fuel station in Al-Matamma had been targeted by a drone (Source: Sudan News Agency "SUNA") • The League of Arab States: Ambassador Badr al-Din Ali al-Jaifari was sworn in before Secretary-General Nabil Fahmy in Cairo on Tuesday, assuming the post of Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States and Director of the Arab Fund for African Aid (Source: Sudan News Agency "SUNA" — Cairo, November 3) • UN controversy: Human Rights Watch criticised the United Arab Emirates' nomination of diplomat Lana Nusseibeh for the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations and accused her of denying her country's support for the Rapid Support Forces and rejecting UN reports documenting that support, and Nusseibeh responded that ending the war in Sudan would be at the top of her priorities if she took the post and that the atrocities of the Rapid Support Forces must be subject to accountability, with support for the work of the United Nations fact-finding mechanisms, confirming that she is on leave from her ministerial post in compliance with the requirements of the independence of the post (Source: Human Rights Watch; statements by Lana Nusseibeh carried in the press) • The United Nations: The Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Denise Brown, warned that the escalation of drone attacks on civilian infrastructure stopped dialysis treatment for 25 patients at a hospital near Khartoum after power was cut from it without a generator or solar panels, and suspended hundreds of aid trucks because of fuel shortages, and said that World Food Programme convoys had been subjected to seven strikes this year and 20 strikes over two years, adding: "This is not about politics, this is about people" (Source: UN News) • Al Jazeera investigation: Satellite images document a wide agricultural collapse in the largest irrigated projects in the states of Gezira, Sennar and Khartoum during the Rapid Support Forces' control in 2024 and a fragile and limited recovery after the army regained areas in 2025, and Minister of Industry Mahasin Ali Yacoub told the "Al-Sudani" newspaper that 126 large industrial facilities and 3,131 small factories were severely damaged in Gezira State alone, while the industrial areas in Khartoum, with about 3,200 facilities, remain destroyed without tangible indicators of recovery (Source: Al Jazeera — a digital investigation using satellite images) • South Sudan: PetroChina International is studying the construction of an oil pipeline 1,550 kilometres long linking South Sudan to Djibouti's ports on the Red Sea via Ethiopia, with a storage facility with a capacity of 300,000 cubic metres in the Damerdjog industrial area, in a project that is still in the study and exploration phase without a final agreement or an announced cost or timetable, and which may give Juba an alternative to the current export line via Sudan to Port Sudan (Source: Dawan Africa citing the "Capital Ethiopia" newspaper) • South Sudan health: Médecins Sans Frontières warned in a new report of the deterioration of primary health care, with the number of operating centres in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State falling from 131 centres to 63 centres, and admissions to Aweil State Hospital rising by 44% between January and September 2026, while the humanitarian needs and response plan for South Sudan had been funded by only 36% as of last October (Source: Médecins Sans Frontières)

— Editorial Team