Monday, November 9, 2026 • The Director General of the Digital Transformation Authority, Dr. Ahmed Al-Aqeed, representing the Government of Sudan at the United Nations Governance Innovation Summit 2026 in Baku, said that Sudan is adopting digital transformation as a driver of reconstruction and national recovery, as the fastest and least costly way to restore government services and build institutional capacities in light of the war, pointing to the issuance of laws regulating digital transformation, cybersecurity, data and artificial intelligence, and to the "Baladna" platform, which includes more than 46 government institutions and provides 134 digital services, its priority being services with a direct impact on citizens' livelihoods and economic activity (Source: Sudan News Agency - SUNA, November 6, 2026). • An expanded meeting of the banking sector in Khartoum, chaired by Sovereignty Council member Lieutenant General Engineer Ibrahim Jaber and attended by the Governor of the Central Bank of Sudan, Amna Mirghani, directed the activation of technical systems and the acceleration of the national switch, banking applications and the transformation towards digital banks, and affirmed linking banking systems to the "Baladna" platform and operating the clearing system at its full capacity starting from Sunday, November 9, with the activation of banking applications, the linking of the "Siraj" system, and the expansion of points of sale and mobile phone payment services (Source: Atheer News, November 5, 2026). • The Central Bank of Sudan cancelled the ceilings that had been imposed on the collection of cheques through the electronic clearing system in the local currency, and decided to make clearing available throughout the days of the week without a maximum limit on the value of cheques, thereby cancelling its circular of January 5, 2026, which had set the ceilings, and its circular of March 12, 2026, concerning electronic collection directives, and amending its December 2025 circular so that clearing is available throughout the week (Source: Atheer News, November 9, 2026). • The Minister of Minerals, Nour Al-Daem Taha, discussed with the Minister of Communications and Digital Transformation, Ahmed Dardiri Gandour, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Minerals, the completion of the ministry's digital transformation projects and their remaining stages, including the project to link the network between the ministry's headquarters and its technical arms and the institutions and companies affiliated with it, to improve information exchange and the integration of databases, in addition to a plan to digitise all of the ministry's procedures and services and make them available electronically to simplify procedures and speed up transactions (Source: Al-Muwatin newspaper, November 4, 2026). • A research study published on the arXiv platform on November 5 on the use of generative artificial intelligence in Sudanese emergency rooms, which are a community humanitarian response network, based on a survey that included 89 participants and 15 interviews with users and non-users of these tools, showed that volunteers resort to them when access to human expertise becomes difficult or dangerous, but they warned that they cannot by themselves establish rapidly changing local conditions, and that reliance on their outputs when human verification is difficult may lead to harmful decisions, and that merely carrying a phone or accessing the internet may expose some volunteers to danger (Source: arXiv, paper "Responsible Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence During Active Armed Conflict: Evidence from Emergency Rooms in Sudan" by a team led by Dalia Ali and others, November 5, 2026). • The Rapid Support Forces confiscated "Starlink" satellite internet devices from citizens in the city of Al-Nuhud in West Kordofan State and prevented their operation, and imposed strict controls limiting the use of social media and satellite internet, which led to isolating residents from their families outside the city, according to field sources who spoke to the Darfur24 website on Saturday, and one of the device owners said that the forces had told them they would return them later, but that did not happen (Source: Darfur24 via Atheer News, November 8, 2026).

— Editorial Team