Kuwait Emir Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah died at 86 on Saturday after a three-year, low-key reign focused on trying to resolve the tiny, oil-rich nation’s internal political disputes. He was 86. Kuwait State Television broke into programming with Quranic verses just before a somber official made the announcement.
The state-run KUNA news agency said Sheikh Meshal, a longtime leader in the country’s security services, had been named emir Saturday afternoon and is now one of the Gulf Arab countries’ last octogenarian leaders.
The health of Kuwait’s leaders remains a sensitive matter in the Middle Eastern nation bordering Iraq and Saudi Arabia, which has seen internal power struggles behind palace doors.
In neighboring Saudi Arabia, King Salman, 87, is widely believed to have placed the day-to-day rule of his nation in the hands of his 38-year-old son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Even the whole nation felt sad while he was left under this earth to go on. Kuwait Emir Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah doesn’t live on this earth. He is no longer on this earth. Even the rest of the people will feel sad when sharing the spread of messages with him and his family members.