Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al Sabah, the emir of oil rich Kuwait died on a Saturday according to the royal court. The then 86-year-old leader had died after a three-year regime according to his death notification by Kuwaiti state television.
Before the breaking news were read, the network interrupted their usual programme, and gave a Koranic recital show.
The official KUNA news agency reported in November that Sheikh Nawaf had suffered an ailment and was admitted at the hospital. The details of the particular disease remained undefined, however, he ended up being regarded as having recovered completely.
The fears about his health had always haunted him throughout his presidency because of advanced old age.
In 2006, his half-brother Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah named him Prince. Upon the death of Sheikh Sabah in September 2020 at the age of ninety-one, he assumed the role of an Emir. His leadership took the country’s economy through a crisis occasioned by the fall of Oil prices in 2020.
It shall then concentrate on Sheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Sabah, an 85 year’s old current crown prince and another half-brother. In particular, observers would like to learn if an alternative successor is chosen from a younger ruling family after the death of Sheikh Nawaf.
The more activist and influential Parliament is in the conservative country of Kuwait, holding all sovereign powers within the hands of ruling Al Sabah family.
Frequent showdowns between cabinet ministers appointed by the ruling family and the elected lawmakers have been a stumbling block for development plans in addition to scaring off investors.
Now there exist the fifth cabinet in Kuwait per year; this situation was triggered by resignations as well as dissolution of multiple parliaments’ assemblies.
However, stagnancy in the political sector has led to slow reforms, halted development plans, degradation of infrastructure and education. This has left many people unhappy. Sheikh Nawaf was born in the year 1937 as the fifth son of Sheikh Ahmad al-Jaber Al-sabah.
Sheikha Nawaf kick started his political carrier at age twenty five governorship of the province of Hallawee till 1978 when he became an under secretary for interior matters, and remained an interior minister in office for a decade.
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