Wednesday, November 4, 2026 1. South Kordofan: more than 16 civilians killed and dozens wounded in a drone attack on a fuel station in Al-Abbasiya: local sources said a drone targeted on Tuesday the "Nawafil" fuel station in the town of Al-Abbasiya Tagali in South Kordofan State while citizens were present there, leading to the destruction of the station, the burning of a number of vehicles and the transfer of the wounded to hospitals, while the Nuba Mountains Platform attributed the attack to the Rapid Support Forces, and this coincided with an attempt to target a fuel station in the neighbouring town of Rashad whose damage was limited to material losses, without the issuance of a documented final toll or an immediate official comment and without independent verification of the party that carried out the attack (Source: Anadolu Agency, citing local sources and the Nuba Mountains Platform; and "Sudan Now", November 3) 2. The army announces the downing of a strategic drone that crossed the border from Ethiopia in Blue Nile amid ground clashes: the General Command of the Armed Forces said in a press circular issued by the official spokesman, "A hostile strategic drone was shot down by our air defences in Blue Nile after it crossed the border from Ethiopia", without specifying its type, the location where it was shot down, or the party that launched it, coinciding with clashes in the region, and the Fourth Infantry Division had announced on Monday that it had repelled an attack on the Bakouri area on the Geissan axis and Sali on the Kurmuk axis, while the Rapid Support Forces announced on Tuesday their control of Sali without independent verification and without comment from the army on this announcement so far (Source: Sudanese Armed Forces — press circular of the official spokesman of the Armed Forces, November 3; and "Sudan Now", November 3) 3. Sudan briefs Germany and Poland on its complaint against Ethiopia and mobilises diplomatic support: the Charge d'Affaires of the Embassy of Sudan in Berlin, Ambassador Idris Mohamed Ali, briefed the foreign ministries of Germany and Poland and the diplomatic community on developments in the situation in the country and on the complaint Sudan has lodged with the Security Council and the African Peace and Security Council regarding drone attacks launched from Ethiopian territory, affirming the country's ability to protect its territory (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA), November 3) 4. The Minister of Energy in an interview with SUNA: Egypt raises electricity supply to Sudan, and fuel understandings with Saudi Arabia and Russia: Minister of Energy and Petroleum Al-Mutasim Ibrahim said Egypt had agreed to increase electricity supplies to Sudan from about 100 megawatts to between 130 and 180 megawatts to cover the needs of Northern State during the winter season, with a strategic project to gradually raise the interconnection capacity to 200 and then 300 megawatts, pointing to progress in talks with Saudi Arabia on supplying Sudan with petroleum derivatives and the ministry's efforts to turn the understandings with Russia into practical agreements including the supply of petroleum derivatives (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA) — interview with the Minister of Energy and Petroleum, carried by "Nabd al-Sudan", November 3) 5. Al-Burhan in statements reported in the press: our forces are on their way to Al-Khoi and others are close to Darfur: journalist Yusuf Abdel Mannan quoted in an article published by Al-Karama newspaper the President of the Sovereignty Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, as saying during a meeting at the General Command, "We are advancing, God willing; our forces are on their way to Al-Khoi and others are close to Darfur", and these are statements quoted from the writer and are not an official operational statement issued by the Armed Forces (Source: Al-Karama newspaper — article by Yusuf Abdel Mannan, November 3) 6. Al Jazeera documents families' return to Khartoum: destroyed homes, a high cost of repair, and about 5.27 million returnees: a report by Al Jazeera documented the return of Sudanese families to homes they found destroyed and looted in Khartoum, with a high cost of repair, a shortage of fuel and power outages, and reported that the Displacement Tracking Matrix of the International Organization for Migration had recorded, as of September 30, the return of about 5.27 million displaced Sudanese to their homes in nine states, 82% of them had been internally displaced and 18% returned from abroad, while the Refugee Agency warned that return does not mean the availability of the conditions for rebuilding life, such as suitable housing, job opportunities, water and services (Source: Al Jazeera — report on the return of displaced people to Khartoum, November 3) 7. South Sudan: UNICEF raises Ebola alert and delivers more than 50 tons of prevention supplies: the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced in Juba that it is on alert and is raising preparedness in priority counties to confront an outbreak of Ebola and Bundibugyo virus disease in neighbouring countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and that it had delivered more than 50 metric tons of personal protective equipment and infection control materials, along with strengthening prevention standards in health facilities and communities and training health workers and rapid response teams, following a national simulation exercise led by the National Public Health Institute and the Ministry of Health to test the country's ability to detect and manage any potential cases (Source: UNICEF South Sudan — press release, Juba, November 3, 2026)

— Editorial Team