• Sources told Reuters: The United States has not yet issued an entry visa to the President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, to attend the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York, amid tension over an American plan for a ceasefire; and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, expressed through his spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric his "deep concern," confirming that the Secretariat raised the matter immediately with the American authorities. (Source: Reuters)

• Al-Burhan in an article in Foreign Policy magazine yesterday, Monday: He rejects external dictates regarding the war, and says that previous ceasefire pauses "only allowed the Rapid Support Forces and their supporters to reorganize their ranks"; and Washington continues mediation through the "Quad" format (the UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and America), while former civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is in New York this week with his anti-war coalition. (Source: Reuters)

• SUNA: The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Denise Brown, called from Khartoum for a shift from "relief" to "investment," saying that Sudan's future must not remain hostage to short-term aid, and that the private sector is the main driver of stability and sustainable development; this came at the opening of the Sudanese Private Sector Recovery Dialogue organized by the Ministry of Finance in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme at the Al Salam Hotel in Khartoum. (Source: Sudan News Agency (SUNA))

• South Sudan: President Salva Kiir signed on Monday evening amendments to the National Elections Act that remove the linking of elections to the completion of the permanent constitution and the national census, in preparation for the December 22 elections — the first since independence in 2011; and the South Sudanese opposition alliance rejected the amendments, considering that they were made without sufficient consultation. (Source: Reuters)

• And Kiir announced today the dissolution of the transitional government three months before the scheduled elections, in an expanded meeting of the presidency in Juba, confirming that political leaders agreed not to extend the transitional period again and to move toward the ballot boxes. (Source: Radio Generation — Kenya)

— Editorial Team