• Sudan at the climate summit in Antalya: The President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, addressed today the thirty-first Conference of the Parties on climate change "COP 31" in Antalya, where he affirmed Sudan's commitment to the positions of the African Group, the Arab Group, the Group of 77 and China and the least developed countries, and warned that the war has doubled the challenges of drought, floods, desertification and food security, calling for doubling climate adaptation financing and converting it into fair and concessional resources for developing countries and those affected by conflicts, and noting that Sudan submitted its third national report in April 2025 and is preparing its fourth report despite the circumstances of the war, while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received him upon his arrival at the summit venue (Source: Sudan News Agency – SUNA, Antalya 11-11-2026, and Anadolu Agency) • Mutual diplomatic escalation with Ethiopia: Sudan closed Ethiopia's consulate in Gedaref and expelled its diplomats, giving them 48 hours to leave, in response to Addis Ababa closing the Sudanese consulate in Asosa and expelling six of its staff, days after Khartoum complained against Ethiopia before the Security Council and the African Peace and Security Council accusing it of allowing its territory to be used in drone attacks against civilian facilities, and the Sovereignty Council's adviser for political and foreign affairs, Amjad Farid, said the government is committed to its right to defend its territory but is making every possible effort to avoid an open war with Ethiopia (Source: Al Jazeera citing Reuters and Agence France-Presse, 11 November 2026) • Sudan and the World Food Programme in Geneva: Sudan's Permanent Representative in Geneva, Ambassador Hassan Hamid Hassan, received today the Director of the World Food Programme's Geneva office, Shannon Howard, and reviewed the humanitarian and food security situation and ways to move from limited humanitarian interventions to recovery projects, rehabilitation of vital facilities, support for agricultural production and small farmers, warning against politicising humanitarian work, and praising the visit of the Programme's new Executive Director, Luke Lindberg, to Sudan, which concluded yesterday, while Howard affirmed the importance of continued coordination and mobilising international support in light of the needs and funding challenges (Source: Sudan News Agency – SUNA, Geneva 11-11-2026) • Sudan hands over the presidency of the Council of Arab Ministers of Justice: The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice and head of the legal sector, Ali Khader Ali, addressing today the opening of the forty-second session of the Council of Arab Ministers of Justice on behalf of the Minister of Justice, Dr Abdullah Mohamed Derf, renewed Sudan's firm commitment to cooperation and integration to establish the values of justice and develop legislation and agreements and unify legal visions, and at the conclusion handed over the presidency of the session to the Algerian Minister of Justice, Dr Lotfi Boudjemaa, after Sudan had held the presidency of the forty-first session since last November (Source: Sudan News Agency – SUNA, Khartoum 11-11-2026) • New international positions on South Sudan's elections: Pakistan called before the Security Council today for the full implementation of the 2018 revitalised peace agreement as the only viable framework for a peaceful transition before the 22 December elections, and South Africa said Juba is not sufficiently prepared for the vote, with gaps in funding and technical capacities identified by an African Union assessment, while the African Union High Representative for the Horn of Africa, Jakaya Kikwete, called for greater international support for the elections, warning that the funding gap could lead to a deeper political and security crisis, and Juba defended proceeding with the elections, rejecting keeping the country indefinitely in transitional arrangements (Source: Associated Press, 11 November 2026, and Sudans Post and Eye Radio citing the Security Council session) • A Sudanese in Spain between war and homeland: Al Jazeera Originals screened today a short documentary film titled "From Sudan to Spain: Between War and Homeland" following the journey of the young Sudanese man Abubakr, who left his country in 2022 at the age of twenty-three and crossed five countries and the Sahara Desert before reaching Europe, and is today rebuilding his life in Madrid through football, work and a cohesive Sudanese community, while living with news of the war and anxiously awaiting news of his family whom he left behind in Darfur (Source: Al Jazeera Originals, 11 November 2026) • Returnees from Cairo to a destroyed homeland: The Associated Press reported from Cairo scenes of Sudanese beginning the journey back to their country hoping for some stability after the army regained Khartoum and other areas in recent months, among them Ahmed Abdullah, who intends to return for a year before deciding whether it is safe for his family to join him, while returnees find destroyed neighbourhoods, power outages and shortages of food, water and services, and the International Organization for Migration estimates the return of about 400,000 internally displaced people to their areas in Khartoum, Gezira and Sennar, while about 1.5 million Sudanese have fled to Egypt during the war according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (Source: Associated Press, Cairo, 11 November 2026)
— Editorial Team
