Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah has been reappointed as Prime Minister of Kuwait by virtue of an Emiri decree on Sunday.

Sheikh Ahmad must form a new government, Kuwait News Agency said.

Sheikh Ahmed was first appointed as Prime Minister in July 2022. He was reappointed three months later, in October 2022.

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Sheikh Ahmed Nawaf was born in 1956. He graduated from Kuwait University where he studied commerce.

In November 2020, an Emiri order was issued appointing Sheikh Ahmad as the deputy chief of the National Guards with a Minister’s degree. In March last year, another decree naming him as first deputy prime minister and minister of interior was issued.