Kuwait has launched a program to aid sustainable development throughout the African continent by creating an annual prize recognizing the best research development advances in food security, health and education that contribute to significantly solving development challenges in African nations.
Named the ‘Al-Sumait Prizes’ after the Abdulrahman Al-Sumait, a Kuwaiti physician who devoted his life to helping the poor in Africa, the initiative was endorsed at the first meeting of the Al-Sumait Board of Trustees in Kuwait.