• Sudanese in Saudi Arabia: Ambassador Kamal Ali Osman, the former Consul General of Sudan in Jeddah, said the consulate succeeded during his period of work in acquiring an official headquarters owned by the state after decades of working in rented premises, and expanded its humanitarian and social roles alongside its consular work, following up the issuance of passports and documents, supervising the Sudanese certificate examinations that benefited more than nine thousand students in the western region, and organising a voluntary return that included 1,429 citizens via 28 flights between August and December 2025, before his move as Sudan's ambassador to Jordan (Source: Sudan News Agency – SUNA, Jeddah 10-11-2026) • A new air gateway for the diaspora: The Secretary General of the Northern State Government, Mahjoub Mohamed Sayed Ahmed, inspected Dongola International Airport today, and the airport director, Mohamed Saleh Hassan, confirmed the completion of technical and administrative arrangements to resume international flights and receive and depart aircraft, with only routine procedures and approvals between the Sudan Airports Company and the Civil Aviation Authority remaining, in a step that facilitates citizens' travel and connects the state to external destinations (Source: Sudan News Agency – SUNA, Dongola 10-11-2026) • Solidarity with Egypt: The President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, sent a cable of condolence and sympathy to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi over the victims of a collision between two trains in the Al-Ayat area of Giza Governorate, in which he expressed his sorrow over the accident, his sympathy to the families of the victims and his wishes for a speedy recovery for the injured, and affirmed the solidarity of Sudan, people and government, with Egypt in this tragedy (Source: Transitional Sovereignty Council Media, 10 November 2026) • UN warning of shelter running out: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration warned that millions of displaced people and returnees in Sudan are threatened with losing emergency shelter as stocks run out and funding falls short, and said 15.4 million people urgently need shelter and essential household items, while the agencies can give priority only to about 10% of them, and only 936,000 people have received assistance so far, at a time when 8.6 million displaced people remain inside the country and more than 4.6 million have fled across the borders, and the 2026 humanitarian response plan of $2.9 billion has received only about 47% of its funding (Source: Joint statement of UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration, Geneva and Khartoum, 6 November 2026) • Abyei between Khartoum and Juba: The Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Horn of Africa, Guang Cong, told the Security Council that the meeting of the Joint Political and Security Mechanism between Sudan and South Sudan, which resumed in Juba in August after a halt since 2023, had its next meeting postponed from 20 October to the period from 8 to 10 November in Khartoum, while the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on 7 November the formation of a high committee for Abyei chaired by a member of the Sovereignty Council and the appointment of a new head of the Joint Oversight Committee, and Sudan objected to the inclusion of Abyei within the constituencies for South Sudan's elections scheduled in December, warning that the step violates the signed agreements (Source: Briefing of Special Envoy Guang Cong to the Security Council, 5 November 2026, and statement of the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 7 November 2026) • South Sudan before the Security Council today: The head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, Anita Kiki Gbeho, said in her briefing to the Security Council today in New York that the central challenge is whether the transition will remain anchored in the revitalised peace agreement and whether the gains of past years will be preserved after polling day, six weeks before the first national elections since independence scheduled for 22 December, after President Salva Kiir in September dissolved the transitional government of national unity and appointed a caretaker administration, and she pointed to deteriorating security and the displacement of more than 35,000 people in Upper Nile and the killing of three peacekeepers in an attack in Jonglei in August, and UN estimates of 2.5 million people in emergency levels of hunger and 73,300 in catastrophic conditions (Source: United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) via UN News video service, New York, 10 November 2026) • British position on Juba's transition: The United Kingdom's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Kate Foster, told the Security Council today that the new caretaker arrangements in South Sudan had weakened political consensus further at a critical stage of the transition, while key provisions of the 2018 peace agreement remain unimplemented, and she called on the authorities to respect the Status of Forces Agreement and allow the UNMISS mission to work without hindrance, noting that about eight million people face acute food insecurity (Source: United Kingdom statement in the Security Council, 10 November 2026, via the British Government and Eye Radio)
— Editorial Team
