• Abyei at the Security Council: Sudan renewed its commitment to addressing the Abyei issue through dialogue and negotiation with South Sudan and rejected any unilateral measures that change the status quo, including the inclusion of Abyei in South Sudan's elections scheduled for December 2026, while the UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, warned that drone strikes on the Amit market on 19 October had added a new and worrying dimension, ahead of the expiry of the UNISFA mandate on 15 November (Source: UN briefings before the Security Council, 5 November, and statement of Sudan's Permanent Mission to the United Nations) • Sudan called on the United Nations to take institutional and legal measures to ensure the United States complies with the 1947 Headquarters Agreement, following the failure to grant the President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, an entry visa to participate in the General Assembly meetings last September, in a statement delivered by Minister Plenipotentiary Ammar Mohamed Mahmoud in the Sixth Committee during the discussion of the report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country (Source: Statement of Sudan's representative to the UN Sixth Committee) • UN shelter appeal: The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration warned in a joint statement on Friday that 15.4 million people urgently need shelter and household supplies, and that resources allow assistance to only about one in ten of those in need, as aid has reached only 936,000 people, and the head of the IOM mission, Mohamed Refaat, said that 16 trucks that arrived in Darfur were the organisation's last stock and its warehouses are now empty, while only 47% of the $2.9 billion response plan has been funded (Source: UN News and the joint statement of UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration, 6 November 2026) • Japanese support for debris removal: Sudan's Ambassador to Japan, Al-Raih Haidoub, thanked the Japanese government after the completion of the signing of the notes for the project "Enhancing Debris Management Capacities in Khartoum State" on 4 November in Cairo; the project includes machinery and equipment worth about $4.5 million in addition to training, and is implemented in cooperation with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) within the commitments of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development "TICAD 9" to support voluntary return and reconstruction (Source: SUNA) • Sudan from Baku: The Director General of the Digital Transformation Authority, Dr Ahmed Al-Aqeed, representing the Government of Sudan at the UN Innovation in Governance Summit 2026 in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, affirmed that digital transformation is a key driver for reconstruction and national recovery, reviewing the "Baladna" platform, which comprises more than 46 government institutions and 134 digital services (Source: SUNA) • Leaked report on Colombian mercenaries: Middle East Eye reported on 6 November, citing a confidential quarterly update by the UN Panel of Experts on Sudan, that Colombian fighters played an important role in Rapid Support Forces operations in Darfur, notably the siege of El Fasher and its capture, and that they trained and moved through a network that includes the UAE, while the UAE denies any involvement in mercenary activity in Sudan and says the company mentioned is not involved — findings by investigators that have not yet been officially published and are not a judicial ruling (Source: Middle East Eye, 6 November 2026, and The New York Times, 5 November 2026) • Diaspora doctors in America: The Sudanese American Physicians Association (SAPA) presented the engineering plan for the maintenance and rehabilitation of the headquarters of the Sudanese National Council for Medical Specialties in Khartoum, during a visit by a delegation headed by the Association's country director in Sudan, Dr Faisal Ahmed Al-Nour, who was received by the Council's Secretary-General, Dr Al-Mughira Al-Amin Gad Al-Sayed, in a step described as a transition from commitment to implementation to support the restoration of health infrastructure (Source: Al-Ahd Online) • Between Cairo, Khartoum and Europe: A new report addressed the limits of "voluntary return" for Sudanese from Egypt, noting that the return train launched by Egypt in July 2025 carried 42,944 Sudanese passengers up to December 2025 according to the Egyptian authorities, and that many face a difficult choice between a fragile life in Cairo and returning to a country still witnessing violence, hunger and struggling services, with the space for registration with UNHCR in Egypt narrowing (Source: InfoMigrants and the British Next Century Foundation) • A Sudanese in Spain on Al Jazeera's screen: Al Jazeera Originals screened a short film titled "From Sudan to Spain: Between War and Homeland" following Abu Bakr, who left Sudan in 2022 at the age of twenty-three and crossed five countries and the Sahara Desert before rebuilding his life in Madrid through football, work and a cohesive Sudanese community, while following from afar news of his family, whom he left in Darfur since the war broke out in April 2023 (Source: Al Jazeera Originals)
— Editorial Team
