Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has granted Bahraini citizenship and appointed as a senior advisor to the Bahraini foreign ministry to diplomat Badr Mohammed Al-Awadi, who was Kuwait’s ambassador to the UK but whose citizenship was recently revoked by Kuwait,
making him the first ambassador to have his citizenship revoked while serving in his country, leaving him stateless for nearly four months, Al-Araby al-Jadeed newspaper reported today.
In January 2026, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior issued a decision, stating that Badr Mohammed Al-Awadi,
had his citizenship revoked, after it was reported that his father, a senior security official who had died, had previously engaged in legal fraud, which had resulted in him losing his citizenship rights.
However, Bahrain, benefiting from Al-Awadi’s experience, today officially granted him citizenship, while appointing him to a higher rank than any position he had previously held in his country of origin, Kuwait.
