Niger hosts conference to display solidarity with Sahel states
Delegates have been gathering this week at a conference in Niamey, intended to show solidarity with the Alliance of Sahel
Twenty-one cancer patients crossed from the Gaza Strip into Egypt on Thursday through the Kerem Shalomcrossing, a medical source in Egypt's El-Arish city said.
"They will be transported to the United Arab Emirates for treatment," the
source went on to add.
It is the first evacuation from Gaza since the Rafah border crossing was
closed in early May, when Israeli forces took over the Palestinian side of the
terminal.
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