Friday, October 30, 2026 1. President of the Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan says in his address to the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow that peace in Sudan must be purely Sudanese, without dictates or external interventions, and affirms the preparation for a democratic civilian transition through Sudanese-Sudanese dialogue and a transitional period followed by free and fair elections under regional and international monitoring (Source: Sudan News Agency — SUNA; Transitional Sovereignty Council Media) 2. Drones attacked at dawn on Thursday the Um Dabakir thermal power station in Rabak and targeted its main feeders and control room, putting it out of service and cutting electricity to White Nile and North Kordofan states, amid the sound of explosions and rising smoke, according to witnesses (Source: Sudan Tribune) 3. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says in a statement that the Rapid Support Forces has intensified its drone attacks on airports, power and water stations, hospitals, fuel depots and oil transport lines, accusing the UAE of providing the drones and Ethiopia of their being launched from its territory, while the army spokesman said at the joint press conference in Khartoum that 162 drone attacks were launched from Ethiopian territory and led to the killing of more than 400 civilians and 102 military personnel (Source: Sudan News Agency — SUNA; Al Jazeera via the joint press conference) 4. Prime Minister Kamil Idris launches at the Green Square in Khartoum the support and solidarity convoy heading to North Kordofan State and says: "The drones will not frighten us, and the economic and media war will not frighten us" (Source: Sudan News Agency — SUNA) 5. The first phase of the national polio vaccination campaign concludes its work after targeting, from October 26 to 29, about 6 million children in 107 localities in 12 states, with the second phase in the first week of November to target 5 million children in Darfur and West Kordofan (Source: World Health Organization and UNICEF) 6. South Sudan: the toll of communal violence in Tonj North County in Warrap State rises to 84 killed, according to a local official (Source: Xinhua News Agency) 7. South Sudan and Russia discuss in Moscow expanding legal cooperation, mutual legal assistance, training and the exchange of expertise, in a meeting between the justice ministers of the two countries on the sidelines of the third Russia-Africa Summit (Source: Standard Zone News)

— Editorial Team