Monday, November 2, 2026 1. Kassala: Drones at dawn on Monday targeted the New Halfa and Aroma power stations and fuel depots in Kassala State in eastern Sudan, and eyewitnesses attribute the attack to the Rapid Support Forces, and media reports speak of the state going out of electrical service, with no official statement on the scale of the damage or losses issued so far (Source: Al-Sharq, from eyewitnesses; Sudan Now and Mataris News) 2. Sudan files an official complaint against Ethiopia with the UN Security Council and the African Peace and Security Council: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the government attached documents confirming the Rapid Support Forces' use of Ethiopian territory to launch suicide and missile-equipped drones at civilian sites and power stations in a number of states, and describes this as a flagrant aggression and a violation of the UN Charter, based on a report by the Advisory Council of the Sovereignty Council that documented 70 attacks with 187 drones launched from Asosa, Bahir Dar and the Kurmuk–Gizan area between February 15 and October 27 that left 484 civilians killed and wounded and 176 military personnel killed, while Ethiopia denies the accusations and affirms its respect for Sudan's sovereignty (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA) — statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and report of the Advisory Council of the Sovereignty Council) 3. The Council of Ministers raises mobilisation to its highest levels: the Council, in its regular meeting in Khartoum on Sunday chaired by Prime Minister Kamil Idris, condemned the repeated attacks on service facilities and infrastructure by drones it said were launched from inside Ethiopia, described them as crimes against humanity, and directed raising the state of mobilisation, officially and popularly, to its highest levels, monitoring the conspiracies being hatched against the country, and imposing the maximum penalties on anyone proven to have supplied the enemy with coordinates of strategic and civilian sites (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA) — statement by Undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture, Information and Tourism Graham Abdel Qader) 4. Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Yasir al-Atta affirms, in an address to stationed forces, that the war does not target specific tribes or regions, that Darfur and Kordofan are an integral part of Sudan, and that the army is confronting foreign fighters he said the Rapid Support Forces brought in from Niger, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia's Puntland and Colombia, accusing external parties of conspiring against the country (Source: Sudanese Armed Forces — statement via its official Facebook page, Sunday) 5. Al-Burhan bids farewell to five new ambassadors: President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Sunday bid farewell to the dispatched ambassadors Muawiya Osman Khalid to Russia, Ammar al-Tayeb to Iraq, Jaafar Sumi to Australia, Bilal Qasim Allah to the Central African Republic and Rahma Hussein to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and directed them to strengthen foreign relations, develop joint cooperation, and affirm Sudan's full sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA)) 6. Health announces the vaccination of more than 6 million children against polio: the Federal Ministry of Health announced at the SUNA enlightenment forum the success of the national polio response campaign (October 26–29) with coverage exceeding 100% of the target, as 6,077,309 children were vaccinated from house to house in 106 localities in 12 states, while the campaign did not include the Darfur states and West Kordofan, and a new campaign is being prepared during November to reach them (Source: Federal Ministry of Health — Sudan News Agency (SUNA) enlightenment forum, Sunday) 7. South Sudan: A national polio vaccination campaign targets about 3.9 million children under five, and vaccination teams vaccinated more than 3.3 million children in the first round at 84% of the target, with a second round scheduled during November, amid confirmation of 18 cases of infection with the type 1 variant poliovirus and 4 cases of type 2 as of October 19 (Source: World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health of South Sudan via ReliefWeb — update of November 2)

— Editorial Team