Angelina Teny

The interior ministry is responsible for overseeing the police, fire department, and other internal security agencies

Angelina Teny is a South Sudanese politician who was state minister of Energy and Mining in the Khartoum-based Government of National Unity between 2005 and 2010. She ran for election as governor of Unity State in April 2010 but was defeated in an election that she claimed was rigged. She was appointed as Minister of Defence of South Sudan in March 2020. Background Angelina Teny was educated in Great Britain and speaks both English and Arabic fluently.[2] She is the wife of Riek Machar Teny, former Vice-President of South Sudan. They have four children.[3] Angelina Teny is one of the most prominent women politicians in South Sudan.[4] In November 2003 Angelina Teny facilitated a conference of South Sudan women on "The House of Nationalities", held in Lokichokio, a concept designed to foster peace and national unity through recognition of diversity State Minister of Energy and Mining The Second Sudanese Civil War formally ended in January 2005 with establishment of an autonomous Government of South Sudan (GoSS) and a defined process to move towards a referendum on full independence. Angelina Teny was state minister of Energy and Mining in the Khartoum-based Government of National Unity between 2005 and 2010.[6] At a November 2006 conference on Oil and the Future of Sudan, held in Juba, she noted that there had been considerable controversy over the Ministry of Energy and Mining when the Government of National Unity was being formed. The oil industry had been developed during the civil war as a means to finance that war, at great human cost, and military concerns had dictated the structure of the industry. Now the government was struggling to organize the National Petroleum Commission (NPC), but the SPLM had confidence in the process

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Graduated from University of Oxford