Kuwait mourns Sheikha Fareeha
KUWAIT: Kuwait yesterday mourned Sheikha Fareeha Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber AlSabah, widow of Sheikh Rashed AlHumoud Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who passed away aged 74. She was the President of the Kuwait Association for the Ideal Family. Sheikha Fareeha was the daughter of the late Amir HH Sheikh Jaber AlAhmad Al-Sabah, the 10th ruler of Kuwait, and the sister of both HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as well as HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. She was born on Feb 15, 1944 in Dasman Palace and married her cousin Sheikh Rashed, with whom she had four children - Sheikha Reem, Sheikha Bibi, Sheikh Humoud and Sheikh Ahmad. Sheikha Fareeha was known for her passion for charitable and social work, as well as her dedication to family issues and women’s rights in particular.
KUWAIT: At the discretion of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the State of Kuwait yesterday sent four seawater desalination units to Iraq. A technical team of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Electricity and Water delivered the units to officials of the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources at the Kuwaiti-Iraqi border yesterday, the Kuwaiti ministry’s undersecretary Mohammad Bushehri said in a press statement. The production capacity of the four seawater desalination units amounts to one million imperial gallons, he said.
Kuwaiti General Consul in Iraq’s Basra Province Yousef Al-Sabbagh was present at the reception. Thanking and appreciating Kuwait’s fresh aid, Iraqi officials said the desalination units would be used mainly in rural and outlying areas in Iraq. They added that the Kuwaiti aid would effectively contribute to the provision of potable water to the residents of southern Iraq. Kuwait had granted Iraq 17 mobile power generators with a total capacity of 30,000 kilowatts, in order to ease out the neighboring country’s power shortage.