DUBAI: The Amiri Diwan said in a statement that was aired on Saturday that Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah has died on Saturday at the age of 86.
Crown Prince Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, who was proclaimed the next emir on Saturday, will succeed him, the state news agency KUNA reports. Kuwait has declared a forty-day period of formal mourning and a three-day shutdown of government offices.
Sheikh Nawaf was hospitalized in late November as a result of a medical issue. A stable status was later proclaimed for him.
Her half-brother Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah designated Sheikh Nawaf crown prince in 2006. Sheikh Nawaf became emir when Sheikh Sabah passed away in September 2020 at the age of 91.
He was previously the interior and defense minister of Kuwait.
Sheikh Nawaf, who was born in 1937, was the fifth child of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the late ruler of Kuwait from 1921 to 1950.
At the age of 25, he began his political career as the governor of the province of Hawalli, a position he held until 1978, when he began a ten-year tenure as interior minister.
Leaders in the area, including King Salman of Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, expressed their sympathies to Kuwait and the family of Sheikh Sabah.
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