Rebecca Nyandeng De Mabior
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Advisor for the President of South Sudan
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Former Minister of Roads and Transport, Government of South Sudan.
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Rebecca Nyandeng De Mabior (in her 40s, as of 2007) is a Sudanese politician. She has served as the Minister of Roads and Transport in the Government of Southern Sudan[1], and is currently one of the Advisors for the President of Southern Sudan. She is the widow of Dr. John Garang De Mabior, the late first Vice-President of Sudan and the President of the Government of Southern Sudan.[2] She is from the Dinka tribe of Bor of Southern Sudan.
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[edit] Role in the Government of Southern Sudan
After the untimely death of Dr. John Garang, General Salva Kiir assumed his positions and became the first Vice President of Sudan and the President of The Government of Southern Sudan. General Kiir appointed Rebecca Nyandeng De Mabior as the Minister of Roads and Transport for the Government of Southern Sudan.
She is currently one of the Advisors for the President of South Sudan. She continues to be a strong advocate for the implementation of The Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed by Dr. John Garang before his death on the 30th of July 2005. Madam Rebecca visited The United States of America and met with President George W. Bush.
She also received an interview by NPR. She spoke of her commitment to the liberation of Southern Sudan while she also respects the necessity of a United Sudan under the New Sudan Vision created by Dr John Garang in 1983. She visited the Iowa University where her late husband was educated many years before the 2nd deadliest civil war in Southern Sudan broke out in 1983.
[edit] Comprehensive Peace Agreement
Rebecca Nyandeng has expressed dissatisfaction with the way the government of Sudan in Khartoum implements the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). During the years of war, she joined the Southern army known today as Sudan People's Liberation Army and The Sudan People's Liberation Movement. She is known for her support for the right of self-determination for South Sudan although she has nothing against the United Sudan under a democratic rule of law. Millions of Southern Sudanese have been affected by the war between the North and South Sudan which has a long history from the time The British left Sudan in 1956. As a result of war over 2 million lives in Southern Sudan have been lost and four million Southern Sudanese are both internally displaced and externally living in other countries as refugees. After the arrival of peace in Southern Sudan, repatriation process is making headlines once in a while by the United Nations.
[edit] Education
Rebecca Nyandeng often appears in Southern Sudanese national women outfit. She has received her education both in Sudan and in the United States of America where she and her husband Dr. John Garang lived for many years. In the absence of John Garang Southern Sudan continues to struggle in implementing The Comprehensive Peace Agreement with The government of Sudan as a national partner with hope and courage to allow The Southern Sudanese people exercise their long-awaited right of self-determination to create a new nation along the Nile River shared with many African nations including Egypt in The North.
Rebecca Nyandeng is fluent in English and many other languages. She is widely respected for her role to encourage the people of South Sudan to stand united and strong when the untimely death of the charismatic leader Dr. John Garang shocked The nation and led the people to the possibility of a civil unrest which continues to be known today to have been prevented by her. She has recently spoken of her husband's death as an assassination rather than an accident. Despite her conviction that her husband was assassinated she never accused anyone in relation to her husband's death.
[edit] References
- ^ The lady they call Madam. New Sudan Vision. Retrieved on 2007-08-30.
- ^ Rebecca Nyandeng: "Who killed my husband?. Iowa State Daily. Retrieved on 2007-08-30.
