• Doha: The President of the Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, arrived in Doha this morning, Thursday, on a working visit, and was received by the Minister of State at the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mohammed bin Abdulaziz al-Khulaifi, with the visit set to discuss bilateral relations, the situation in Sudan, and common regional and international issues (Source: Qatar News Agency «QNA») • Tokyo and Khartoum: Sudan's Ambassador to Japan, Al-Rayah Haidob, thanked the Japanese government for the project "Enhancing Debris Management Capacities in Khartoum State" with machinery and equipment worth about 4.5 million dollars along with training, after the signing of its memoranda was completed in Cairo on 4 November, to be implemented in cooperation with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Source: Sudan News Agency «SUNA», 5 November) • Egypt and voluntary return: The Consulate General of Sudan in Alexandria, in coordination with the Voluntary Return Committee, today dispatched a new batch of Sudanese wishing to return aboard six buses, and they were seen off by the Consul General, Ambassador Abdel Da'im Ali al-Bashir, who affirmed that the dispatching will continue until the last Sudanese who requests return (Source: Consulate General of Sudan in Alexandria and the Voluntary Return Committee) • Cairo: Sudanese journalistic and media initiatives in the Sayyida Zaynab district honoured the journalist Mahasen al-Hussein, director of the «SUNA» office in Cairo, in recognition of her career and her support for journalists, in the presence of the cultural adviser at the Embassy of Sudan, Dr Asim Ahmed Hassan, and representatives of the embassy (Source: «Al-Lahza News», 4 November) • Abyei in the Security Council: The Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, said that drone attacks in Abyei in October added a worrying dimension and that the security situation remains fragile despite a decrease in recorded incidents by about 32% compared with the same period in 2025, while Britain called on Sudan and South Sudan to ensure access and support for the «UNISFA» mission and to resolve the dispute over including Abyei in the December 2026 elections, ahead of the end of the mission's mandate on 15 November (Source: UN News and the United Kingdom statement in the Security Council, 5 November) • The United Nations warns: The Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Denise Brown, said that systematic drone attacks on energy and fuel over two weeks stopped dialysis sessions for 25 patients at a hospital near Khartoum and suspended hundreds of relief trucks, while the World Food Programme was forced to reduce beneficiaries and cut rations after seven attacks on its convoys since the beginning of the year (Source: United Nations — Humanitarian Coordinator, carried by SPA, 4 November) • South Sudan: The International Organization for Migration warned that about 100 thousand people are threatened with losing basic healthcare in Wanthou, with the risk of the closure of the only clinic at the Sudan and South Sudan crossing by December due to a shortage of funding, noting that the clinic has provided more than 400 thousand consultations and 260 thousand vaccinations, and that the organisation is seeking 131 million dollars for its 2026 response plan (Source: International Organization for Migration via ReliefWeb, 5 November) • South Sudan: «Médecins Sans Frontières» warned that funding cuts and the withdrawal of relief organisations have left about 150 thousand displaced people in the Bentiu and Malakal camps without clean water, sanitation and reliable care, raising the risk of cholera and waterborne diseases, while the «UNMISS» mission in Tambura, in Western Equatoria, organised coffee meetings for women from divided communities to rebuild trust (Source: Médecins Sans Frontières and the United Nations Mission in South Sudan «UNMISS», 5 November) • Geneva: Donors pledged more than 400 million dollars to the United Nations fund for education in emergencies, «Education Cannot Wait», bringing total pledges to 541.6 million dollars out of a target of 600 million for the 2027-2030 plan, which targets 10 million children in conflict countries, including Sudan (Source: Reuters, 5 November) • The diaspora in Europe: «Al Jazeera» screened a short film titled "From Sudan to Spain: Between War and Homeland" following Abu Bakr, who left Sudan in 2022 and crossed five countries and the desert before rebuilding his life in Madrid through football, work and a cohesive Sudanese community, while following from afar news of his family that he left in Darfur (Source: Al Jazeera Originals, 5 November)
— Editorial Team
