Manasseh Magok Explained

Manasseh Magok
Office2:Speaker of the National Legislative Assembly
Term Start2:August 2013
Term End2:4 August 2016[1]
Predecessor2:James Wani Igga
Successor2:Anthony Lino Makana
Birthname:Manasseh Magok Rundial
Nationality:South Sudanese
Party:NCP, SPLM

Manasseh Magok Rundial (born 1950[2]) is a South Sudanese politician and former speaker of National Legislative Assembly.

Magok is Nuer.[3] He joined politics in 1982, and won a Bentiu constituency seat in Southern Sudan regional assembly. After 1985 he became governor of Upper Nile State. In 1990s he joined National Congress Party, but resigned in 2005.

Magok served as speaker from August 2013 to 4 August 2016. During his tenure the assembly ratified the "Compromise Peace Agreement".[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rundial Hands over as Makana Takes over Assembly Speakership . 2019-03-02 . 2019-03-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190302090500/http://www.thenationmirror.com/featured-stories/1935-rundial-hands-over-as-makana-takes-over-assembly-speakership . dead .
  2. Book: Kuyok . Kuyok Abol . South Sudan: The Notable Firsts . AuthorHouse . en . 4 September 2015. 9781504943468 .
  3. Book: Johnson . Hilde F. . South Sudan: The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War . Bloomsbury Publishing . en . 9 June 2016. 9781786730053 .
  4. Web site: South Sudanese parliament ratifies peace agreement with SPLM-IO - South Sudan ReliefWeb . 28 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211216102838/https://reliefweb.int/report/south-sudan/south-sudanese-parliament-ratifies-peace-agreement-splm-io . 2021-12-16 .

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