• Tripoli: Sudan called on the states of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States to condemn the violations of the Rapid Support Forces, classify it as a terrorist organization, and prevent the passage of weapons, logistical support and mercenaries through their territories, in a speech by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Maawia Osman Khalid, before the twenty-second session of the Executive Council of the Community, held on Saturday 7 November in Tripoli (Source: SUNA) • New York and Abyei: The Chargé d'Affaires of Sudan's Mission to the United Nations, Ambassador Abu Zeid Shams al-Din, briefed the UN Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Guang Cong, on the government's steps to enhance stability in Abyei, including the resumption of the meetings of the Joint Political and Security Mechanism, the formation of a high committee headed by a member of the Sovereignty Council, and the appointment of a new head of the Joint Oversight Committee, while the subsequent meeting of the Mechanism is expected to be held from 8 to 10 November (Source: SUNA; and Security Council - Special Envoy briefing 5 November) • Brussels: Sudan's Ambassador Khalid Musa met on Friday the Deputy Director for Africa at Human Rights Watch, Laetitia Bader, and called on the institutions of the European Union to implement European Parliament Resolution No. 2026/2799, which calls for listing the Rapid Support Forces on the list of terrorist organizations and holding accountable the perpetrators of crimes in El Fasher and West Darfur (Source: Sudanese diplomatic reports published today) • West Kordofan: Today's newspapers headlined the Armed Forces' announcement yesterday that its air defences shot down a hostile drone of the FH-95 type in the skies of the Ayal Bakhit area, the second announcement of its kind in the state within days, without the circular issued by the Official Spokesperson specifying the party operating the drone (Source: Official Spokesperson of the Armed Forces via SUNA and Sudanese newspaper coverage today) • Ayal Bakhit: The Dar Hamar Emergency Room announced today, Sunday, the killing of 3 and the wounding of 8 others from the Armed Forces in an ambush it said occurred following the circulation of a video from Ayal Bakhit before the securing of the area was complete, and called on the Army leadership to prevent the publication of any field materials except after an official statement from the Spokesperson of the Armed Forces (Source: Statement of the Dar Hamar Emergency Room) • Blue Nile: Clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North forces allied with it in Damazin on 6 and 7 November, and a drone strike hit the city's electrical substation and stopped the local dialysis centre from working (Source: Sudan Tribune and Radio Tamazuj) • Khartoum and fuel: The fuel crisis witnessed yesterday a relative easing, especially in gasoline and to a lesser degree in diesel, and the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum, Ali Abdel Rahman, said the unloading of gasoline and diesel shipments from vessels in Port Sudan port is continuing, with pumping to the capital's stations intensified, while Nabta Petroleum Company announced the receding of vehicle queues in front of its stations (Source: Ministry of Energy and Petroleum and Sudanese newspaper coverage today) • Humanitarian: The warning of the UN Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration still tops today's coverage, as about 15.4 million people in Sudan need emergency shelter and basic household supplies, while the agencies, with the available funding, can help only about one in every ten people in need, and only 936,000 people have received assistance so far, and the Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration, Mohamed Refaat, said the organization's warehouses have emptied and that 16 trucks that arrived in Darfur on Thursday were its last stock (Source: Joint statement of the International Organization for Migration and UNHCR 6 November and UN News) • North Darfur: Displaced families in Anbar, Aurori, Mazbat and Bahraz in the Umbro countryside are sleeping in the open and sheltering in the shade of trees with no shelter or blankets, amid a scarcity of drinking water and food, and the Coordination of Emergency Rooms of Umbro Locality calls for urgent intervention to provide shelter, food, health care and drinking water (Source: Coordination of Emergency Rooms of Umbro Locality) • South Darfur: The General Coordination of IDP and Refugee Camps warned of the worsening crisis in Marshing in Jebel Marra after the failure of the agricultural season and the depletion of sorghum and millet stocks, with families beginning to be displaced towards Tawila in North Darfur, and demanded field teams and urgent food aid, water and health services (Source: General Coordination of IDP and Refugee Camps via Radio Dabanga) • South Sudan: Panikang County in Upper Nile State is without any health care centre despite its population exceeding 7,737 people, and the nearest hospital is Malakal Hospital, two to three days away by local boat, and the local authorities recorded 14 deaths linked to water accidents between May and June during journeys to seek treatment (Source: Catholic Radio Network of South Sudan)

— Editorial Team