Cairo: Qatar’s national team arrived on Thursday in Egypt to participate in the 2021 World Men’s Handball Championship, in a sign of a thaw in ties between the two countries, sources said.
The 24-member squad arrived in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria on a plane flying from Doha, the sources added.
The plane landed at the Bourj Al Arab airport in Alexandria, the venue for matches of a four-nation group comprising Qatar, Croatia, Japan and Angola .
Qatar will play Angola Friday in the handball tournament that runs until January 31.
On Tuesday, Egypt reopened its airspace for Qatari aircraft, ending a dispute with the Gulf country.