Executive Summary
• Umbaro (North Darfur): the North Darfur Emergency Room Council issues an urgent appeal for "hundreds" of families — "thousands" of residents per the headline — who fled Mazbad, Arouri, Umm Maraheik and Abu Haraz after RSF attacks early last week, accusing the RSF of arrests, ethnically targeted killings and destroying Mazbad hospital and Arouri's water source. Claims not independently verified; no RSF response.
• Damazin: the dialysis centre stopped after a power station was hit on Tuesday evening, cutting power to Damazin and Roseires; activists report the death of a kidney patient (Radio Tamazuj).
• Kordofan: the army says it took "Ayal Bakhit" in Al-Khuwei locality (West Kordofan) and downed an FH-95 drone there; military sources cite recapturing Umm Arda, Jabal al-Hashaba and Umm Darsaya south-west of El Obeid. No RSF account.
• Abyei at the Security Council: Jean-Pierre Lacroix calls drone strikes "a new and concerning dimension", saying the 19 October strikes killed at least 30 and injured about 59. The Sudan–South Sudan Joint Political and Security Mechanism meets in Khartoum on 8–10 November.
• Hunger drives displacement: the displaced persons' coordination body says drought and failed harvests push Mershing (South Darfur) residents to Tawila daily. We found no reports of the start of Egypt's fourth-phase mining campaign at retrieval time.
