#South_Sudan’s main armed opposition SPLA-IO and the National Salvation Front say their joint forces repelled a coordinated attack by the 🇸🇸 People’s Defence Forces near Torit on Saturday, claiming to have inflicted heavy casualties on government troops.

#Sudan's army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, announced on Sunday his rejection of the third negotiating paper presented by the Quartet of the #US, #Saudi_Arabia, the #UAE, and #Egypt to end the war.

#Kenya’s restrictions on #Ugandan dairy products have prompted Kampala to export 200,000 tonnes of dairy products to #Nigeria by the end of November in a deal valued at over $1.02 billion (Sh131.8 billion) at factory prices.

#Ethiopia's National Election Board has announced the date for next year's elections (June 1st) and allocated 10 billion birr ($65 million) for conducting the elections.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims that “Sudanese brothers” wanted #Türkiye involved in efforts to end the ongoing war in #Sudan.

#BREAKING The US Congress has published a massive 745-page report detailing the nature of the strategic rivalry between the US and China and America's threat perception and vulnerabilities. Here are a few excerpts of the report on Chinese activities as pertaining to Africa.

A tribal source informed of dynamics in southeastern Libya adds that the LNA General Command has established a new border crossing with Chad — the 17 crossing — which it uses to transport weapons destined for the RSF.

But in order to avoid “angering the #Egyptians,” the source says, weapons now pass through #Chad instead of the border triangle b/w #Sudan, Libya and Egypt, after a previous and clear Egyptian stance warning eastern Libyan leaders not to use that area as a supply route for RSF.

According to a military source in southeastern Libya, the logistics support line, used mainly for provisions, continues to operate through Kufra.

With the increased scrutiny on the RSF’s supply lines, the #Libyan National Army began to make changes in the parties responsible and the route of the weapons transfer.

#Ethiopia's Ministry of Mines reveals that several gold producers delivered “very low” outputs, despite receiving operational support and policy attention. Intensive follow-up work with large-scale producers did not yield the results they had hoped for.

Ethio telecom profit after tax down by nearly 70 percent to 5.8 billion Birr in the 2024/25 financial due to #Ethiopian government’s currency and foreign exchange market reforms.

#Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has proposed the creation of an East African Federation with a unified military structure. It would bring together the armed forces of #Kenya, #Tanzania, Uganda, #Somalia, #Rwanda, #Burundi, #South_Sudan, #DRC.

#Somalia’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Dahir Shire Mohamed, has on Friday announced that several international companies including firms from the #US have expressed growing interest in exploring the country’s oil potential.

The Civil Democratic Alliance of the Forces of the Revolution, known as ‘Somoud’, announced on Friday that it would not participate in the meetings organized by the #French facilitation group, Promediation, between #Sudanese political forces in #Cairo.

A high court in #Nairobi has suspended a government directive halting the registration of asylum seekers from #Ethiopia and #Eritrea.

Sources in Washington say that the #US State Department is considering a new round of sanctions targeting people crucial to the relationship between #Sudan’s RSF and the #UAE, which has been its main sponsor.

A source in #Sudan’s justice ministry says the #UN fact-finding mission must first coordinate with Sudanese prosecutors, saying that “a national committee already exists” to carry out investigative duties.

Bol Mel was fiercely opposed to Machar, who now hopes that the charges against him will be dropped. It is on this condition that the opposition leader's entourage says it is in favour of resuming the Tumaini process.

An event on the sidelines of the European Union-African Union summit in Luanda, on 24 and 25 November, is also expected to address the issue of reviving the Tumaini talks. The sudden dismissal on 12 November of Benjamin Bol Mel has reshuffled the deck.