Executive Summary
• Blue Nile: the Kurmuk locality commissioner says drones "belonging to the RSF" killed nine civilians in Bani Shuko village, Kilei administrative unit, with an unspecified number injured. No RSF response.
• UNICEF: spokesperson James Elder tells reporters in Geneva that drones caused two-thirds of child casualties in Sudan this year, that 15 power stations were hit in October, and that about 825,000 children under five are expected to suffer severe acute malnutrition.
• Food security: Port Sudan authority Agriculture Minister Essmat Qurashi tells WFP Executive Director Luc Lindberg the government rejects "conducting or publishing" any food-security analysis without its participation, days after surveys showed malnutrition above the emergency threshold.
• West Kordofan: the Dar Hamar Emergency Room accuses the RSF of beating civilians at the Foga mining-mill market, imposing levies, looting the Wad Banda market and confiscating Starlink terminals, amid fighting near Foga. No RSF response.
• Hunger and malnutrition: 26 children with acute malnutrition and about 200 malaria cases among 2,325 displaced people in Al-Lait Jar al-Nabi (North Darfur), per the displaced coordination body. In Damazin, activists say Saudi relief items were found for sale.
