Newly appointed Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management Albino Akol Atak. [File Photo]

Kiir appoints new humanitarian affairs minister

In a decree on Tuesday evening, South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit appointed Albino Akol Atak as the new Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management.

In a decree on Tuesday evening, South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit appointed Albino Akol Atak as the new Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management.

The post fell vacant in November last year after Kiir fired Peter Mayen Majongdit of the Other Political Parties (OPP) coalition, a party to the 2018 revitalized peace agreement. 

Akol is OPP’s spokesperson and Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC).