{"id":1087015,"date":"2022-05-14T10:08:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T10:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/14\/what-killed-uae-president-sheikh-khalifa-bin-zayed-revealed\/"},"modified":"2022-05-14T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T10:08:13","slug":"what-killed-uae-president-sheikh-khalifa-bin-zayed-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/14\/what-killed-uae-president-sheikh-khalifa-bin-zayed-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"What killed UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-30126\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"379\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-14-at-8.44.27-AM-696x379.png\"   alt=\"UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed\" title=\"UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has died, Emirati state news agency WAM reported. He was 73.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced that there will be 40 days of official mourning with flags at half mast and three days closure of ministries and official entities at the federal and local levels and the private sector,\u201d the agency wrote on Twitter on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Khalifa had rarely been seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2014, with his brother, Abu Dhabi\u2019s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (known as MBZ) seen as the de facto ruler and the decision-maker of major foreign policy decisions, such as joining a Saudi-led war in Yemen and spearheading an embargo on neighbouring Qatar in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UAE has lost its righteous son and leader of the \u2019empowerment phase\u2019 and guardian of its blessed journey,\u201d MBZ said on Twitter, praising Khalifa\u2019s wisdom and generosity.<\/p>\n<p>Under the constitution, Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, would act as president until the federal council which groups the rulers of the seven emirates meets within 30 days to elect a new president.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: TheBBCghana.Com<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"td-block-row td-post-next-prev\">\n<div class=\"td-block-span6 td-post-prev-post\">\n<div class=\"td-post-next-prev-content\"><span>Previous article<\/span>Women no longer wear panties \u2013 Nollywood actress<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td-block-span6 td-post-next-post\">\n<div class=\"td-post-next-prev-content\"><span>Next article<\/span>Never in your life marry a lady with small bortos \u2013 Popular musician advises<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Kofi Anokye, PhD\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2022-05-14T08:46:53+00:00\"\/><meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2022-05-14T08:46:53+00:00\"\/><meta itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WebPage\" itemid=\"https:\/\/thebbcghana.com\/what-killed-uae-president-sheikh-khalifa-bin-zayed-revealed\/\"\/><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/thebbcghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEW-BBC-e1587657736248.png\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"BBC Ghana Reports\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"headline \" content=\"What killed UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed revealed\"\/><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/thebbcghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-14-at-8.44.27-AM.png\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"798\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"435\"\/><\/span> <\/footer>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has died, Emirati state news agency WAM reported. He was 73. \u201cThe Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced that there will be 40 days of official mourning with flags at half mast and three days closure of ministries and official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1087017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11425,13486,5163,275,2672,8852,5948,13487],"class_list":["post-1087015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bin","tag-khalifa","tag-killed","tag-president","tag-revealed","tag-sheikh","tag-uae","tag-zayed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}