Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who handed away on Saturday on the age of 86, has been laid to relaxation in a non-public funeral.
Kuwait’s late Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who handed away on Saturday on the age of 86, has been laid to relaxation in a non-public funeral attended by choose kin.
State tv on Sunday confirmed a prayer ceremony at Bilal bin Rabah mosque within the capital Kuwait Metropolis and a funeral procession to the Sulaibikhat cemetery for the emir, which had been restricted in attendance to the ruling household.
Parliament speaker Ahmed al-Sadoun was the one high official outdoors the al-Sabah household to be allowed to attend the prayers on the mosque.
Kuwait’s new emir, the 83-year-old Sheikh Meshaal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, was seen shedding a tear on the ceremony and accompanying his half-brother’s coffin, which was draped in a Kuwaiti flag.
The brand new emir will obtain condolences from the broader public on Monday and Tuesday.
A 40-day mourning interval has begun, and a three-day shutdown of presidency workplaces will final until Tuesday. Throughout Kuwait Metropolis, flags had been lowered to half-mast and enormous digital billboards displayed footage of the late ruler.
Easy but shifting funeral procedures of the late emir of #Kuwait:
*prayer held in Sh Nawaf’s favourite mosque, Bilal bin Rabah
*prayer restricted to household; speaker of parliament current in 1st row w/ senior relations
*incoming emir in tears
*procession en path to burial web site pic.twitter.com/msfyDIFcsf— Bader Al-Saif بدر السيف (@bmalsaif) December 17, 2023
Sheikh Nawaf’s reign because the emir was very brief – solely three years – by Kuwaiti requirements, and was marred by sickness. He had been admitted to the hospital final month, and authorities didn’t announce an official reason behind dying on Sunday.
His predecessor and brother, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, had dominated for 14 years and was a key determine in shaping the Arab state’s international coverage. He died in September 2020 at 91.
Regardless of not ruling as emir for lengthy, Sheikh Nawaf held public service workplaces for six a long time, serving as minister of defence, inside, labour and deputy chief of the Nationwide Guard.
Dignitaries from international locations within the Center East and different elements of the world paid their respects following his dying.
Sheikh Nawaf had issued quite a few amnesties for political prisoners, incomes him the nickname, “emir of pardons”. One in all his final strikes earlier than his dying was the signing of a draft decree accredited by cupboard late final month, demanding the discharge of dozens of political prisoners.
He was defence minister when Iraq, led by President Saddam Hussein, invaded Kuwait in 1990, setting off a battle that drew in international navy powers to finish Kuwait’s occupation.