• Ethiopia and Sudan: Ethiopia ordered six staff members of the Sudanese consulate in the border city of Asosa to leave the country within 48 hours, according to a senior Ethiopian official, in a new escalation between the two countries against the background of mutual accusations that each side supports the other's enemies, and days after Sudan deposited a complaint against Ethiopia with the Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council regarding the Rapid Support Forces' use of Ethiopian territory to launch drones at Sudanese civilian infrastructure, which Addis Ababa denies (Source: Reuters, 4 November 2026) • Cairo and the Arab League: Ambassador Badr al-Din Ali al-Jaafari took the oath before the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Nabil Fahmy, in Cairo, taking up the post of Assistant Secretary-General of the League and Director of the Arab Fund for African Aid, becoming the third Sudanese diplomat to hold this post since the founding of the League (Source: Sudan News Agency «SUNA», Cairo, 3 November 2026) • The Arab League and Sudan: Secretary-General Nabil Fahmy commissioned Zaid al-Sabban as his personal envoy for Sudan affairs, with the aim of intensifying contacts with the Sudanese parties and preparing the atmosphere for a comprehensive national dialogue with Sudanese leadership and ownership, and Fahmy discussed with Sudanese Foreign Minister Mohieddin Salem Khartoum's request for an independent international investigation into the drone attacks, renewing the League's condemnation of the Rapid Support Forces' attacks on civilians and infrastructure (Source: Statement of the League of Arab States, 3 November 2026) • Egypt and voluntary return: The Egyptian government agreed to continue providing facilities for Sudanese wishing to return voluntarily to their country via land transport and railways, during talks between Egyptian Transport Minister Kamel al-Wazir and his Sudanese counterpart Saif al-Nasr al-Tijani on the sidelines of the meetings of the Arab transport ministers, and the meeting addressed the Wadi Halfa port quay and the railway linkage projects between the two countries and the Nile Valley Authority for River Navigation (Source: «Sudan Today» on the talks of the Egyptian and Sudanese transport ministers, 4 November 2026) • Diaspora — United States: Sudanese beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status in the United States still retain their protection and work permits despite the designation ending on 19 October last, as US Citizenship and Immigration Services confirmed that an announcement regarding Sudan's designation will be issued “in due course” and that Sudanese people in America under this status retain protection until that announcement, without specifying a date for the final decision (Source: US Citizenship and Immigration Services «USCIS» — Temporary Protected Status alert for Sudan, confirmed in reports of 1 November 2026) • United Nations: The Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Denise Brown, warned that the intensive drone attacks during the past two weeks are systematically targeting energy and fuel facilities, and that power outages stopped dialysis sessions for 25 patients at a hospital near Khartoum, and that hundreds of aid trucks are stuck because of fuel shortages, hampering the delivery of food and the treatment of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition, noting that World Food Programme convoys have been subjected to seven attacks this year and 20 attacks in two years (Source: UN News — interview with Denise Brown, 3 November 2026) • Port Sudan and global trade: The northern port in Port Sudan received during last October 13 ships whose total incoming cargoes amounted to about 516,253 tonnes of strategic and consumer goods, industrial materials and general cargo, and wheat shipments topped the imports at about 255.8 thousand tonnes (Source: Data carried by Sudan News Agency «SUNA», 3 November 2026) • South Sudan — UNMISS: The United Nations Mission in South Sudan urgently deployed patrols in Tonj North following destructive intercommunal violence in the Greater Tonj area that, according to reports, claimed the lives of 72 people and injured 38 others on 26 October, while the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission in Tonj North estimated the displacement of more than 12,000 families who took refuge in schools, under trees and in neighbouring communities, amid severe water scarcity, as only a single water source serves the host residents and the displaced together (Source: United Nations Mission in South Sudan «UNMISS» via APO, Juba, 4 November 2026) • South Sudan — Médecins Sans Frontières: Médecins Sans Frontières warned that funding cuts and the withdrawal of relief organisations have left about 150,000 displaced people in the Bentiu and Malakal camps without essential services for water, sanitation and primary healthcare, increasingly exposing them to the risk of cholera and other waterborne diseases, and it called on donors and humanitarian actors to urgently secure sustainable funding, noting the recording of about 110,000 cholera cases and 1,970 deaths across South Sudan since 2024 (Source: Médecins Sans Frontières «MSF» via ReliefWeb, Juba, 4 November 2026)
— Editorial Team
