Angelina Jany Teny

Amid visible signs of worsening ill-health President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been moving to protect his authority and succession just as the house arrest of First Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and his wife Angelina Teny on 27 March raises fears of renewed civil war as fresh fighting breaks out (AC Vol 66 No 7 Salva sidelines Riek)...

Kiir's press secretary David Amuor Majur has denied that Machar and his wife Angelina Teny who is also South Sudan's Interior Minister are under house arrest saying this is ‘un-founded and does not accurately reflect the reality of the situation'...

However that was nullified when Kiir sacked Angelina Teny the wife of Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon as Defence Minister in March 2023 though she was later appointed Interior Minister in October (AC Vol 64 No 12 Forgotten but not gone)...

One obstacle to continuing progress was Salva's seemingly unconstitutional sacking in March of Defence Minister Angelina Teny (see Box Blessed and confused are the peacemakers)...

Resentment has been building at the top of the armed forces since Angelina Teny the wife of Salva's arch-rival Riek Machar became defence minister in the new Revitalised Government of National Unity...

If Riek recused himself the appointment could fall to his wife Angelina Teny who is representing him in Addis Ababa...

His wife Angelina Teny missed the opening in Addis Ababa because the IGAD plane tickets for her arrived late...

Ezekiel Lol now heads the key Petroleum Ministry previously in the hands of Dak Dop Bishok IO's representative in Sudan and close to Riek's elder wife Angelina Jany Teny often seen as the power behind the oil throne...

He was elected Governor in 2010 after a violently contested campaign against his cousin Riek's wife Angelina Jany Teny...

The pro- government Bul group reflects old disputes involving Riek; his right-hand man former Governor Taban Deng Gai; his elder wife Angelina Jany Teny; and several leading commanders...

Riek's senior wife the former State (junior) Minister of Energy and Mining Angelina Jany Teny said in an interview with a local radio station on 3 September that the opposition had 'refused' to sign what she described 'not as a proposal but as a compulsory document...