• Sudan calls on the United Nations to take institutional and legal measures to ensure the United States complies with the 1947 Headquarters Agreement, over the failure to grant the President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, an entry visa to participate in the General Assembly meetings last September, in a statement delivered by Minister Plenipotentiary Ammar Mohamed Mahmoud, Sudan's representative to the Sixth Committee, during discussion of the report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country (Source: Statement of Sudan's representative to the UN Sixth Committee) • Sudan affirms, from the UN Summit on Innovation in Governance 2026 in Baku, that digital transformation is a key driver for reconstruction and national recovery, and the Director General of the Digital Transformation Authority, Dr Ahmed Al-Aqid, said the "Baladna" platform includes more than 46 government institutions and 134 digital services, and that reconstruction should not mean restoring what existed before the war but building a more efficient and resilient government (Source: SUNA) • The army and supporting forces have made field progress on the western and southern axes of El Obeid, capital of North Kordofan, destroying a platform dedicated to launching suicide drones, with reports of control over the Umm Arda and Jabal Al-Hashaba areas to secure the surroundings of the city and the roads linking El Obeid with Dilling and Al-Khoi (Source: Sudanese newspapers published today and Al-Quds Al-Arabi citing military sources) • Drone attacks strike three electricity substations in New Halfa and Aroma in Kassala State and the Al-Ghazali station in Northern State, raising the number of strikes that have targeted the electricity grid to 18 within a week, with widespread outages, while the government said it submitted on Sunday complaints against Ethiopia to the Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council, and the army announced the surrender of a group of Rapid Support Forces to its forces in Damazin, capital of Blue Nile (Source: Al Jazeera – Sudan) • The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Denise Brown, renews the warning about drone strikes on electricity stations and fuel facilities, with reports of a strike on an electricity transmission station and the Roseires Dam in Damazin and widespread outages and the killing of two civilians in a residential area, and strikes in Umm Badr that killed two women and injured 10 others and caused severe damage to two water stations, while UNICEF delivered malaria treatment to 765 health facilities in Darfur and West Kordofan, sufficient for 800,000 people (Source: UN News) • The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration warn that 15.4 million people in Sudan urgently need emergency shelter and basic supplies, while funding constraints allow assistance to be prioritised for only about 10% of them, and only 936,000 people have received assistance so far, with 8.6 million displaced inside the country and more than 4.6 million having fled across borders, and the head of the International Organization for Migration in Sudan, Mohamed Refaat, saying the organisation's warehouses are now completely empty (Source: Reuters citing a joint statement by UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration) • Abyei in the Security Council: the Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, says the drone attacks on 19 October were the first of their kind in Abyei and killed at least 30 people and injured about 59 others, and the Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Guang Cong, describes them as among the bloodiest incidents in the region, ahead of a second meeting of the Joint Political and Security Mechanism between Sudan and South Sudan in Khartoum from 8 to 10 November, before the UNISFA mandate ends on 15 November, while Sudan affirmed in its statement its commitment to the political and legal references for Abyei and to addressing it through dialogue with South Sudan and forming a high-level national team to negotiate over it (Source: UN News and statement of Sudan's Permanent Mission to the United Nations) • Three people, including two brothers, were killed and two others injured following the explosion of a store of explosive materials used in artisanal mining in the Al-Qulubab area of Berber locality in River Nile State on Thursday, and the explosion destroyed the store completely and its causes have not yet become clear (Source: Eyewitnesses to Radio Dabanga) • Signing of memoranda to support the project to enhance rubble management capacities in Khartoum State, in cooperation between Japan and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), including the supply of machinery and equipment worth $4.5 million (Source: Sudanese newspapers published today) • The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region condemns, at the conclusion of its work, the drone attacks in Sudan that caused power generation stations to go out of service in large parts of the country (Source: Sudanese newspapers published today)

— Editorial Team