Oman: Qaboos returns to Europe for treatment


Issue 1094 - 13 Dec 2019 | 1 minute read

Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al-Said travelled to Belgium on 7 December for unspecified medical checks. A statement from the Royal Court Diwan said the checks “will take a limited period”. It gave no other details. Qaboos has often travelled to Europe for healthcare in the past, spending long periods in Germany from 2014 to 2016 to tackle his colon cancer, treatment which had hitherto been seen as successful.

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