• Khartoum and Riyadh: Prime Minister Professor Kamil Idris was briefed today on the course of work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ambassador Muhieddin Salem, in a report that covered foreign participations, official visits and follow-up on their outcomes and meetings of joint ministerial committees, and the meeting reviewed the work of the Strategic Coordination Council with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the ongoing arrangements for convening the Sudanese side in it and following up the tasks of its subcommittees (Source: Sudan News Agency – SUNA, Khartoum 9-11-2026) • African security cooperation: Prime Minister Professor Kamil Idris met in Khartoum the Director of the Intelligence Service of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Justin Inzun Kakiak, in the presence of the Deputy Director of the General Intelligence Service, Lieutenant General Abbas Mohamed Bakhit, and the meeting reviewed the course of bilateral relations and prospects for security cooperation and coordination of joint efforts to confront security challenges and threats in a way that enhances stability and peace on the African continent (Source: Sudan News Agency – SUNA, Khartoum 9-11-2026) • Malaria initiative wins African support: Prime Minister Professor Kamil Idris, in his meeting with the Minister of Health, Dr Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim, endorsed the formation of the National Council for Malaria Control under his chairmanship, after the minister presented the results of his participation in the African Leaders' Summit at which the "Malaria-Free Sudan" initiative was presented and found wide endorsement and support, with the council to include the federal and state levels and relevant bodies (Source: Sudan News Agency – SUNA, Khartoum 9-11-2026) • UNICEF in Northern State: The Governor of Northern State, Lieutenant General Abdel Rahman Abdel Hamid Ibrahim, was briefed on the projects of the United Nations Children's Fund "UNICEF" in water and solar energy, which include the construction of three water stations in Al-Dabba and Merowe localities with networks exceeding 140 kilometres in length, and the installation of solar energy systems for water stations at a rate of 80%, with the Merowe, Nuri and Karima stations to enter service in the coming weeks (Source: Sudan News Agency – SUNA, Dongola 9-11-2026) • Emergency landing in Khartoum: The Sudanese authorities announced today, Monday, the emergency landing of 12 Ethiopian aircraft at Khartoum International Airport during the past twenty-four hours, and the Sudan News Agency said the landing was the result of bad weather conditions and visibility dropping to 800 metres (Source: Sudan News Agency – SUNA, quoting the Sudanese authorities, 9 November 2026) • Returnees from Egypt find Khartoum destroyed: Tens of thousands of Sudanese are returning from Egypt and from within Sudan to areas retaken by the army in Khartoum and other areas hoping for stability, but returnees find destroyed neighbourhoods, continuing power outages and shortages of food, water and services, and the International Organization for Migration said about 400,000 internally displaced people had returned to areas of Khartoum, Gezira and Sennar, while about 1.5 million Sudanese fled to Egypt during the war, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Source: Associated Press, Cairo, 9 November 2026) • New displacement toward Chad: The International Organization for Migration said insecurity had driven 2,510 people from five villages in North Darfur State to flee, most of them taking refuge across the border in Chad, and the displacement was concentrated in Um Baru locality, whose security situation remains unstable, after earlier waves that included 1,150 people from four villages between 29 and 31 October, while about 8.6 million people remain displaced inside Sudan and more than 4.6 million have fled to neighbouring countries since April 2023 (Source: International Organization for Migration, via Anadolu Agency, 9 November 2026) • Children without families in North Africa: About 9,000 Sudanese children arrived in North African countries without their parents or separated from their families during the past three years, according to the International Organization for Migration, and the protection programme official at the organisation's regional office for the Middle East and North Africa, Rawaa Ahmed, told UN News that unaccompanied children face risks of trafficking, exploitation and violence, and called for alternatives to immigration detention that take into account children's protection needs (Source: International Organization for Migration, via UN News, 8 November 2026) • Security Council and African Peace and Security Council reject the parallel authority: The UN Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council affirmed their rejection of the establishment of a parallel governing authority in areas under the control of the Rapid Support Forces, renewed their commitment to Sudan's sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity, and called for a cessation of hostilities and a comprehensive Sudanese-led political settlement, in a joint statement issued following their twentieth annual consultative meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York on 23 October and published by the African Union Commission on 2 November (Source: Joint statement of the UN Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council, via the African Union Commission) • Diplomatic escalation with Ethiopia: Ethiopia ordered on 4 November six Sudanese diplomats at the Sudanese consulate in Asosa, in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, to leave the country within 48 hours and closed the consulate, and Sudan responded by closing Ethiopia's consulate in Gedaref in eastern Sudan and expelling its staff, and this came after Sudan announced on 1 November that it had filed complaints to the Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council over cross-border drone attacks attributed to the Rapid Support Forces (Source: Reuters, 5 November 2026)
— Editorial Team
