Rowch Nouri Shaways during an interview with Kurdistan 24, Sept. 18, 2020. (Photo: Screengrab)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – A prominent Kurdish political figure and key player in the history of the Kurdistan Regional Government has died at the age of 74.
The family of Rowsch Shaways announced his death on Monday, saying the politician had died at a hospital in the Kurdistan Region’s capital Erbil without specifying the illness that caused it.
Shaways was a well-known political figure across Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, holding several top military and political posts in both the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) as well as its federal counterpart.
He was the prime minister of the KRG during the 1990s. In Baghdad, he held the post of deputy prime minister under three Iraqi premiers: Ibrahim Jaffari (2005-2006), Nouri al-Maliki (2006-2014), and Haider al-Abbadi (2014-2018). He had been the vice president of the country after the toppling of former dictator Saddam Hussein.