Kuwait appoints new prime minister

    WORLD  15 April 2024 - 20:11

    Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Meshal has issued a decree to appoint Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al Ahmad Al Sabah as Prime Minister and to ask him to form a new government.

    Sheikh Ahmad replaces Prime Minister Sheikh Dr Mohammed Sabah Al Salem, who submitted his government's resignation to the Emir following recent elections, as reported by The National News.

    Sheikh Ahmad is a Kuwaiti economist and has served as head of the Crown Prince’s Court since 2021. In 2009, Sheikh Ahmad was appointed minister of oil and minister of information, holding those portfolios for two years.

    He served as health minister from 2005 to 2007, as transport minister from 1999 until 2006, minister of planning and minister of state for administrative development affairs from 2003 until 2005 and as finance minister from 1999 and 2001.

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