Kuwait City: Kuwait’s 91-year-old ruler Amir Shaikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah was admitted to hospital on Saturday for medical checks, and the country’s crown prince will temporarily carry out some of his duties, the state news agency KUNA reported.
It said Shaikh Sabah, who has ruled the OPEC oil producer and US ally since 2006, would undergo a number of medical checkups, but it gave no further details.
A royal order was issued assigning Crown Prince Shaikh Nawaf al-Ahmed al-Sabah, the emir’s designated successor, “to take over some constitutional jurisdictions of His Highness the Amir temporarily”, KUNA said in a separate statement.
Last year, Shaikh Sabah was admitted to hospital in the United States while on an official visit there, after suffering what his office described as a health setback in Kuwait in August.
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