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Awut Deng Acuil

This November, it was announced that a woman will for the first time chair the governing body of a university in South Sudan. Awut Deng Acuil, who is currently the Minister of General Education and Instructions, will chair the council of the University of Bahr El-Ghazal established in 1991, BBC reported.

Achuil’s appointment was announced in a presidential decree that was read on the South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation, the national broadcaster, the report added.

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Achuil, before becoming the General Education and Instructions minister, was also the first woman to serve as the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.