• Khartoum: The women's bulletin of the Sudan News Agency «SUNA» issued today covered the journey of Sudanese women in wartime and their role in relief, care and media, and Professor of Journalism at Omdurman Islamic University Dr Salwa Hassan Siddiq said that women in media have emerged as an active partner and a witness to events despite displacement and loss, while businesswomen outside Sudan are working to encourage displaced women to take up small projects and resume production (Source: Sudan News Agency «SUNA» via the Federation of Arab News Agencies «FANA», 6 November) • Khartoum: Member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council Lieutenant General Engineer Ibrahim Jaber directed accelerating the comprehensive digital transformation in the banking sector, activating the national switch and banking applications and controlling export proceeds, in an expanded meeting of the leadership of the banking sector at the headquarters of the Central Bank of Sudan, in the presence of Governor Amna Mirghani, with agreement on strengthening the capitals of banks by the end of 2026 and adherence to anti-money laundering standards, Basel and governance (Source: Transitional Sovereignty Council Media, carried by Atheer News Network and «Sudan Now», 6 November) • Geneva and Khartoum: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration warned today that millions of displaced people are threatened with losing emergency shelter as funding and stock run out, as 15.4 million people need shelter and basic household items while the agencies can help only about 10% of those in need, and only 936 thousand people have received assistance, and the head of the International Organization for Migration mission in Sudan, Mohamed Refaat, said from Khartoum that the organisation distributed more than 40 thousand tons this year but "our warehouses are now completely empty", while the 2026 humanitarian response plan of 2.9 billion dollars has received only about 47% of what is required (Source: Joint statement of UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration, UN News and Reuters, 6 November) • New York: The Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa, Guang Cong, warned the Security Council that the Sudan war could drag the Abyei region into a wider conflict, describing the drone attack on the Amit market on 19 October as one of the deadliest incidents in Abyei and calling for a swift independent investigation and accountability for those responsible, while Sudan's representative Al-Harith Idris Al-Harith Mohamed renewed Khartoum's rejection, announced on 13 July, of including Abyei in South Sudan's elections in December 2026 for violating the agreements between the two countries, with the next meeting of the Joint Political and Security Mechanism to be held from 8 to 10 November (Source: Special Envoy briefing to the Security Council on resolution 2046 via ReliefWeb, 5 November, and «Sudan Now», 6 November) • Khartoum: A field report documented the return of displaced Sudanese to destroyed and looted homes around the capital despite the improvement of the situation in wide parts of the country, noting that about 5.27 million displaced people had returned to their homes in nine states as of 30 September according to the Displacement Tracking Matrix of the International Organization for Migration, and that about 2.5 million people had returned to Khartoum State according to a UNHCR assessment in August 2026, while the state authorities announced measures to address the transport crisis by supplying public transport with fuel and giving buses priority (Source: Al Jazeera, 6 November) • Madrid: «Al Jazeera Originals» screened a short film titled "From Sudan to Spain: Between War and Homeland" following the journey of the young Sudanese Abu Bakr, who left Sudan in 2022, crossing five countries and the Sahara desert before reaching Europe, and who is today 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 since the war broke out in April 2023 (Source: Al Jazeera Originals, 6 November) • Khartoum and the diaspora: Badr Airlines resumed its international operations from Khartoum International Airport to destinations linking Sudanese to their country, including Jeddah, Cairo, Riyadh, Doha, Juba, Entebbe, Addis Ababa, Asmara, Istanbul and Muscat, in addition to Kassala and Dongola domestically, after a period of operating from Port Sudan during the closure of the airport, with flights of Tarco Air and Sudan Airways continuing to Egypt and Saudi Arabia mainly (Source: ATC News via AeroRoutes, 4 November)
— Editorial Team
