KHARTOUM: Sudan’s paramilitaries have ordered civilians to vacate homes in the capital’s south, several residents said on Sunday, as fighting between the forces of rival generals raged in the western Darfur region.

“Members of the Rapid Support Forces told me I had 24 hours to leave the area,” said Khartoum resident Fawzy Radwan.

He had been guarding his family’s home since fighting began in the city more than three months ago between the RSF and the regular army.

AL-MUKALLA: Yemen’s military officials said on Sunday that the Iran-backed Houthis had launched attacks on government troops outside the besieged city of Taiz and fired reconnaissance drones in the last 48 hours, the latest in a series of Houthi military efforts to make headway toward the city’s downtown. 

Abdul Basit Al-Baher, a Yemeni military official in Taiz, told Arab News that the Houthis had targeted Yemeni army positions on the city’s eastern, northeastern, and western outskirts with mortar bombs and heavy machine guns.

DUBAI: Manned missions launched by the UAE and Saudi Arabia signal “a new era in Arab space exploration,” Emirati astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi has told Arab News from the International Space Station.

As the first Arab astronaut deployed on a long-term space mission, having arrived on the ISS in March alongside three Americans and three Russians, and the first Arab to perform a spacewalk, AlNeyadi is blazing a trail for the Arab world’s budding space industry.

JEDDAH: A tally of death figures recorded by local activists and volunteer groups indicates that the civilian death toll in Khartoum State may be more than double the official count, underscoring the devastating impact of the more than 100-day long war on the Sudanese people.

CAIRO: With busy riders forced to negotiate traffic-choked streets in all weathers day and night — and arrive with a smile on their face — it is no surprise that food delivery in Egypt has been a male domain.

But now one fearless woman is winning widespread admiration after breaking with tradition and taking on the challenges of the job.

Heba Ashraf from the city of Minya, about 245 km south of Cairo, said that “love for my family and a desire to help them” led to her decision to become a food delivery woman.