The Ministry of Presidential Affairs of the United Arab Emirates announced on Friday, May 13, the death of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates.
United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who over the past two decades has accompanied his country’s meteoric rise on the international scene, has died, authorities announced on Friday.
The government has decreed “an official mourning and the flags lowered” for 40 days, the official WAM news agency said. The late head of state had been rare in public since a stroke in January 2014.
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