Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah al-Ahmad al Sabah was appointed as the new Prime Minister of which country in April 2024 ?
Kuwait
He was appointed Prime Minister of Kuwait — option 4.
The surname is the clue. Al-Sabah is the ruling family of Kuwait, which has governed the country since the eighteenth century. Any figure carrying that name in a news item about a head of government almost certainly belongs to Kuwait, and no ruling house of that name exists in Palestine, Yemen or Lebanon.
The events of 2024. Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah had become Emir of Kuwait in December 2023 on the death of Sheikh Nawaf. In April 2024 the Emir appointed Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah al-Ahmad al-Sabah as Prime Minister and asked him to form a government. The following month the Emir dissolved the National Assembly and suspended several articles of the constitution for up to four years, saying the step was needed to end political paralysis — a significant development in a Gulf state whose elected parliament had been the most assertive in the region.
| Country | Political system |
|---|---|
| Palestine | Palestinian Authority; Mohammad Mustafa became Prime Minister in March 2024 |
| Yemen | Divided by civil war between the internationally recognised government and the Houthis |
| Lebanon | Parliamentary republic with a confessional power-sharing system |
| Kuwait | Constitutional emirate ruled by the Al-Sabah family |
Background on Kuwait’s system. The Emir is head of state and appoints the Prime Minister, who has traditionally been drawn from the ruling family. The National Assembly, first elected in 1963, has the power to question ministers and withdraw confidence, and repeated confrontations between Assembly and Cabinet have led to frequent dissolutions and rapid changes of government — the context in which this appointment took place.
Hence, the answer is Kuwait.
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