• Khartoum: The state governor, Ahmed Osman Hamza, approved a package of urgent measures to ease the transport crisis caused by fuel shortages, including allocating specific fuel stations in each locality for buses and public transport vehicles and giving them priority in allocations, increasing the bus fleet of the State Transport Company and carrying citizens and students at half fare, and enlisting buses of the regular units and government units to transport citizens and students (Source: Khartoum State Government via Sudanese reports) • Gezira: The state governor, Al-Tahir Ibrahim Al-Khair, heralded an imminent easing of the fuel crisis, and during his inspection of petrol distribution at Al-Wajha station in the popular market in Wad Madani directed an increase in the number of service stations and an expansion of storage and distribution capacities, adherence to dispensing fuel according to queue priority without favouritism, and the allocation of stations for private cars, rickshaws, tuk-tuks and motorcycles (Source: Gezira State Government via Sudanese reports) • Red Sea: Drones targeted on Saturday, in two stages, a transformer power station under construction and a fuel pumping pipeline station outside the city of Haya, leading to fires breaking out, columns of smoke rising and loud explosions being heard in several locations in the city, without the scale of losses and damage yet being clear (Source: Al-Ghad Al-Sudani via local sources and eyewitnesses) • White Nile: The city of Al-Dueim has been living without electricity supply since dawn on Monday following an attack on the Mashkour transformer station that led to the destruction of the control room and one of the transformers and the loss of electricity from Al-Dueim, Al-Kawa and Wad Al-Zaki, and the price of ice jumped from 10,000 to 30,000 pounds with a decline in bakery production and the cost of charging a single phone reaching 2,000 pounds (Source: Radio Dabanga via citizens in Al-Dueim) • Northern: The director general of the Agricultural Bank in the state, Amin Mohamed Abu Zeid, announced the bank's readiness to finance the winter agricultural season through its 13 branches in the state's localities, and said the state targets planting more than one million feddans with winter season crops, including 320,000 feddans for wheat cultivation (Source: SUNA) • North Kordofan: The acting manager of the Central Bank of Sudan's El Obeid branch, Mirghani Hassan Babiker, confirmed that currency replacement in the state is proceeding smoothly and without obstacles, and that the withdrawal of old printings of the 500-pound denomination by depositing them into bank accounts continues until 31 December 2026 and they become non-discharging of liability as of 1 January 2027, with about 24 bank branches in Sheikan locality and two branches in each of Umm Ruwaba and Al-Rahad (Source: Central Bank of Sudan, El Obeid branch) • South Kordofan: The city of Dilling was subjected on Saturday to artillery shelling concentrated on the eastern neighbourhoods and the outskirts of the city using heavy artillery, Katyusha shells and 120-calibre guns, attributed to the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North, and the army's 54th Infantry Brigade responded by targeting positions and gatherings around the city, without confirmed information on the scale of losses (Source: Ultra Sudan via military and local sources) • Blue Nile: The United Nations Children's Fund said in a report issued on 28 October that more than 28,000 people were displaced from the localities of Geissan and Kurmuk in the region during August, and many of them headed to Damazin, Wad Al-Mahi and Roseires, while thousands of others remained in areas that are difficult to reach and suffer from limited services and aid (Source: UNICEF) • South Darfur: The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, strongly condemned the escalation of drone attacks in Sudan, in a statement that noted that the latest incidents documented by the Emergency Lawyers group was a raid on the Tangonj market in the Dumaya neighbourhood of Nyala city that resulted in the killing of 102 people and the injury of 113 others, and called on the parties to spare civilians and vital infrastructure from danger and to agree without delay on a cessation of hostilities (Source: UN News; Emergency Lawyers) • West Darfur: UNICEF said in the same report that more than 12,000 people were displaced from Sarba locality in the state during August as fighting escalated, and many of them crossed the border into Chad (Source: UNICEF) • Darfur Region: The governor of the region, Minni Arko Minawi, discussed with the Malaysian Minister of Health, Dzulkefly Ahmad, expanding health and humanitarian support for Darfur, including support for mobile health centre projects to reach gatherings of the displaced and provide basic medical services, on the sidelines of the Malaysian-Sudanese Conference on Education and Humanitarian Recovery in Kuala Lumpur (Source: Governor of Darfur Region via his post; Sudan Platform)
— Editorial Team
