Photo: The late Sheikh Nawaf
Breaking: Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Nawaf is dead
The Emir of Kuwait, Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, has died at the age of 86.
This is contained in an announcement made by Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Al Sabah, the Minister of his Emiri Court, in the state owned television on Saturday.
“With great sadness and sorrow, we the Kuwaiti people, the Arab and Islamic nations, and the friendly peoples of the world mourn the late His Highness the Emir, Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, who passed away to his Lord today,” Al Sabah said.
The television station had to interrupt its regular programming to Koranic verses before announcing the death of Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
The monarch had been admitted to hospital in late November due to a medical emergency. The illness was unspecified.
Born in 1937, Sheikh Nawaf was the fifth son of Sheikh Ahmad al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who served as Kuwait’s ruler from 1921 to 1950.
He started his political career at the age of 25 as governor of Hawalli Province, where he remained until 1978 when he started a decade as interior minister.
He was named Crown Prince in 2006 by his half-brother Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.
The deceased monarch took over as Kuwait’s Emir when his half-brother died in September 2020 at the age of 91. Sheikh Nawaf had also served as Kuwait’s defense minister.
The late monarch’s half-brother, who is Kuwait’s deputy ruler and the present crown prince, Sheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, is 83 years old.
