Oyay Deng Ajak (born 16 October 1962) is a South Sudanese politician. He was formerly the Chief of Staff of the National Army, the Minister for Investment in the Cabinet of South Sudan as well as Minister of National Security. He was appointed to that position on 10 July 2011. [1] In 2014, he was charged with attempting a coup against the Government of South Sudan, but the charges were suspended having been totally false and trumped up. He is currently occupied in advocating for peace and responsible governance in South Sudan.
Currently, the politics of Sudan takes place in the framework of a federal provisional government. Previously, a president was head of state, head of government, and commander-in-chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces in a de jure multi-party system. Legislative power was officially vested in both the government and in the two chambers, the National Assembly (lower) and the Council of States (higher), of the bicameral National Legislature. The judiciary is independent and obtained by the Constitutional Court. However, following a deadly civil war and the still ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan was widely recognized as a totalitarian state where all effective political power was held by President Omar al-Bashir and his National Congress Party (NCP). However, al-Bashir and the NCP were ousted in a military coup which occurred on April 11, 2019. The government of Sudan was then led by the Transitional Military Council or TMC. On 20 August 2019, the TMC dissolved giving its authority over to the Sovereignty Council of Sudan, who were planned to govern for 39 months until 2022, in the process of transitioning to democracy. However, the Sovereignty Council and the Sudanese government were dissolved in October 2021.
The politics of South Sudan concern the system of government in the Republic of South Sudan, a country in East Africa, and the people, organizations, and events involved in it.
Lieutenant General Nhial Deng Nhial is a South Sudanese politician and a member of the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). He was Minister of Foreign Affairs 2011 to 2013 and 2018 to 2019 after having served as the caretaker Minister of Defense since 10 July 2011. Prior to that he served as the pre-independence South Sudanese Minister of SPLA and Veteran Affairs, from 22 December 2008 until 9 July 2011.
The Cabinet of Sudan usually refers to the chief executive body of the Republic of the Sudan. The Cabinet was dissolved following the 11 April 2019 Sudanese coup d'état. Chapter 5 of the August 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration defines the procedures which led to the nomination of Abdalla Hamdok as Prime Minister, and up to 20 Ministers in the Cabinet, during late August 2019, for the 39-month democratic transition. The Sudanese Women's Union protested against this. Under Article 19 of the Draft Constitutional Declaration, the ministers of the Transitional Cabinet are ineligible to run in the election scheduled to follow the transition period.
The Cabinet of South Sudan is the Executive Branch of the Government of South Sudan. The Cabinet members are appointed by the President and report to the President.
Deng Alor Kuol is a South Sudanese politician. Currently the minister of East African Community Affairs in President Salva Kiir's government, he is a member of the Ngok Dinka ethnic group, and was born in Abyei region, an oil-producing border region between Northern and Southern Sudan. He’s also a brother to Achai Wiir, a South Sudanese renowned businesswomen.
Kosti Manubi is a South Sudanese politician. He is the current Minister for Cabinet Affairs in the Cabinet of South Sudan. He was appointed to that position on 10 July 2011.
John Luk Jok was a South Sudanese politician.
Gier Choung Aloung is a South Sudanese politician. He served as Minister of Internal Affairs in the Cabinet of South Sudan. He was appointed to that position on 10 July 2011.
Dr. Pricilla Nanyang is a South Sudanese politician. She has served as deputy minister for gender, child and social welfare as well as minister without portfolio.
Mary Jarvis Yak, sometimes known as Mary Jarvase Yak, is a South Sudanese politician. As of 2016 she is the current deputy minister of Finance and Planning in the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU) of the Republic of South Sudan, appointed by the President of the Republic of South Sudan -H.E. Salva Kiir on 28 April 2016.
Awut Deng Achuil is a South Sudanese politician who presently serves as the minister in the Ministry of General Education and Instruction in the Revitalised Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGoNU). She is the first female Minister of Education for South Sudan and was previously Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation from August 2019 until March 2020.
Dr Barnaba Marial Benjamin Bil is a South Sudanese politician. He was appointed in April 2021 as the minister of Presidential Affairs in the office of the President as of 2022 replacing Nhial Deng Nhial.
Anthony Lino Makana is a South Sudanese politician. He was the Speaker of Transitional National Legislative Assembly of South Sudan from 2016 until his resignation in 2019. He was a former Minister of Transport and Roads in the Cabinet of South Sudan. He was appointed to that position on 10 July 2011.
Paul Mayom Akech is a South Sudanese politician. He is the current Minister for Irrigation and Water Resources in the Cabinet of South Sudan. He was appointed to that position on 10 July 2011.
Dr. Michael Milli Husein is a South Sudanese politician. He was born in 1951 Raga, Western Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan. He is a graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria (Egypt). After graduation, he worked as a civil servant for 15 years. In 1995, he was appointed as State Minister of Health, and then in 2001 he was appointed as the Governor of the Western Bahr el Ghazal. He has been Minister for General Education in the Cabinet of South Sudan. He was appointed to that position on 10 July 2011.
Hon. Jemma Nunu Kumba is a South Sudanese politician. She is the current Minister of Gender, Child and Social Welfare of South Sudan. She founded the Sudan women Parliamentary Caucus in 2004 at the start of the comprehensive peace agreement. She was chosen by the SPLM as the speaker of the Revitalised Transitional National Legislative Assembly (R-TNLA). She became the first woman to preside over the parliament of South Sudan.
Stephen Dhieu Dau Ayik is South Sudanese politician, banker by profession, and financial technocrat. He is a proven professional and held various cabinet positions in the Government of the Republic of South Sudan. He is a senior member of Sudan’s People Liberation Movement (SPLM) and had served in various cabinet positions. Stephen Dhieu Dau was the Minister of Finance and Planning until March 2018 in the RSS. He served as Minister of Petroleum and Mining and Minister of Commerce and Industry. Stephen Dhieu Dau is from Melut County, Upper Nile State, and belongs to the Nyiel section of the Padang Dinka ethnic group. In October 2022, President Salva Kiir appointed Stephen Dhieu Dau as the chairperson of the Board of Directors of the National Revenue Authority. In December 2022, He was appointed as a member of the SPLM Political Bureau.
Mayiik Ayii Deng is a South Sudanese politician and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, He was appointed into the office following Republican decree by the President removing Beatrice Khamisa Wani in September 2021 and was fired in March 2023.
Abdalla Hamdok Al-Kinani is a Sudanese public administrator who served as the 15th Prime Minister of Sudan from 2019 to October 2021, and again from November 2021 to 2 January 2022. Prior to his appointment, Hamdok served in numerous national and international administrative positions. From November 2011 to October 2018, he was deputy executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). UNECA staff described Hamdok as "[a] diplomat, a humble man and a brilliant and disciplined mind". In 2020, Hamdok was named among Bloomberg's 50 Most Influential figures of the year.