Dr. Pricilla Nanyang (Priscila Nyanyang or Priscilla Nyayang Joseph Kuch) is a

South Sudan South Sudan (), officially the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the north by Sudan; on the east by Ethiopia; on the south by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya; and on the ...

ese

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. She has served as deputy minister for gender, child and social welfare as well as minister without portfolio.

Education

Nanyang earned a Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery in 1978 from

University of Khartoum The University of Khartoum (U of K) () is a public university located in Khartoum, Sudan. It is the largest and oldest university in Sudan. UofK was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902 and established in 1956 when Sudan gained independen ...

. She received her Masters of Community Medicine from in 1987 also from the University of Khartoum.

Career

Between 2005 and 2010 she served as a

Sudan People's Liberation Movement The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM; , ''Al-Ḥarakat ash-Shaʿbiyyat liTaḥrīr as-Sūdān'') is a political party in South Sudan. It was initially founded as the political wing of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA; a key belli ...

(SPLM) member of National Assembly and Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee in the National Parliament. In 2007, Nanyang participated in an SPLM task force to try and facilitate peace talks in

Darfur Darfur ( ; ) is a region of western Sudan. ''Dār'' is an Arabic word meaning "home f – the region was named Dardaju () while ruled by the Daju, who migrated from Meroë , and it was renamed Dartunjur () when the Tunjur ruled the area. ...

. Nanyang was one of seven women appointed to the South Sudanese cabinet in June 2010. She was appointed

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in the

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on 10 July 2011. As Minister Without Portfolio, Nanyang led an eight-week research project, called "Comprehensive Evaluation of the Government of South Sudan", to study how the South Sudanese Government was performing since its formation in 2005. She is also the former deputy minister for gender, child and social welfare. In 2014 she coordinated a meeting of women peace activists in

Juba Juba is the capital and largest city of South Sudan. The city is situated on the White Nile and also serves as the capital of the Central Equatoria, Central Equatoria State. It is the most recently declared national capital and had a populatio ...

"to advance the cause of peace, healing and reconciliation." As deputy minister, she traveled to New York City in 2013 for the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women and while in New York met with the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. As of 2015 Nanyang also held the title of chairperson of the South Sudan Women Peace Network.

External links

Website of Government of South Sudan

References

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