{"id":8011,"date":"2023-12-16T11:42:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T11:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8011"},"modified":"2023-12-16T11:42:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T11:42:03","slug":"kuwaits-emir-sheikh-nawaf-al-sabah-dies-at-age-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/16\/kuwaits-emir-sheikh-nawaf-al-sabah-dies-at-age-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait\u2019s Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Sabah Dies at Age 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kuwait\u2019s Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al-Sabah died on Saturday, the royal court said, after three years in power. He was 86.<br \/>\n\u201cWith great sadness and sorrow, we mourn&#8230; the death of Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait,\u201d said a statement aired on Kuwaiti state television.<br \/>\nState television had cut its regular programming and switched to a broadcast of Quranic recital before the announcement.<br \/>\nIn November, Sheikh Nawaf was admitted to the hospital \u201cdue to an emergency health problem,\u201d according to the official KUNA news agency, which did not elaborate on his illness. He was later declared in stable condition.<br \/>\nThe 86-year-old ascended the throne in September 2020 after the death of his half-brother, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al-Sabah.<br \/>\nPrior to his appointment as emir, Sheikh Nawaf had been Kuwait\u2019s crown prince since 2006, when he was appointed by the late Sheikh Sabah.<br \/>\nSheikh Nawaf had previously served Kuwait for over 50 years in various positions.<br \/>\nFrom 1994 until 2003, Sheikh Nawaf was deputy chief of the Kuwaiti National Guard. That year, he was appointed Minister of Interior and the first Deputy Prime Minister of Kuwait.<br \/>\nUnder Kuwait\u2019s constitution, succession of the emir and crown prince positions are traditionally limited to only the descendants of Mubarak al-Sabah.<br \/>\nSheikh Mishal al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al-Sabah is the current Crown Prince of Kuwait.<br \/>\nKuwait has yet to officially announce the successor of the emir following Sheikh Nawaf\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed Kuwait\u2019s Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al-Sabah died on Saturday, the royal court said, after three years in power. He was 86. \u201cWith great sadness and sorrow, we mourn&#8230; the death of Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait,\u201d said a statement aired on Kuwaiti state television. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8013,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011\/revisions\/8013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}