Kuwait: Emir Sheikh Sabah in Malabo

Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah was co-president of the Arab-African Summit held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, which opened on 23 November. The summit placed Kuwait in an unexpectedly difficult situation, as other other GCC states pulled out on the summit’s eve in solidarity with Morocco, which boycotted the event because of the presence of the Polisario Front’s Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic. Kuwait could hardly leave an event it hosted last time out, in 2013, and which the emir was committed to chair and then hand over the co-chairmanship to President Mohammed Ould Abdelaziz of Mauritania.