Oman: Sultan Qaboos is back
Issue 990
- 03 Apr 2015
| 3 minute read
Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al-Said returned to Muscat on 23 March after an absence of more than eight months, during which he is understood to have been treated for cancer. In a statement announcing his return, the Royal Court said the sultan was “in complete health”; state television aired footage of him getting off the plane from Munich and walking down red-carpeted steps unaided, the first public sighting of him since he appeared in November to announce he would not return to Oman for National Day.
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