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- Unity state governor, Taban Deng Gai in Bentiu, Unity state, April 5, 2012 (ST)
Name: Taban Deng Gai
Position: Governor of Unity State, South Sudan
Tribe: Nuer
Career: Employed by the Chevron Oil Company before joining the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) in the 1980s. In charge of distributing relief supplies in both Itag and Nasir, Upper Nile State during the civil war.
Gai was one of the commanders who participated in the 1991 ’Nasir’ Split in the SPLA, which was led by Riek Machar.
He rejoined the SPLA before the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which brought the SPLM to power in South Sudan, and led to the region’s secession from Sudan in 2011.
In 2010 Gai was retained the Governorship of Unity State in controversial elections against Machar’s wife Angelina Teny, who ran as an independent.
His military rank was withdrawn in February 2013 as part of reform to South Sudan’s amry (SPLA).
Sources:
James, W. 2007. War and Survival in Sudan’s Frontierlands. James Currey, Oxford
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