Sudan appoints new cabinet with Southerner in oil job

By Khaled Abdelaziz

June 14, 2010 (Khartoum) — Sudan’s president Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Monday named his new coalition government, appointing Southerner Lual Acuek Deng to the new post of oil minister, according to a presidential order seen by Reuters.

It is likely to be Sudan’s last government ahead of a secession referendum due in January 2011 that could see the country’s oil-producing south split away to form Africa’s newest independent state.

The order from the president split Sudan’s former Ministry of Energy and Mining into three — with separate ministries for oil, mining and electricity combined with dams.

The appointments come seven weeks after Bashir, the only sitting head of state wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), held on to power in national elections.

Bashir, who rejects charges of ordering mass murder and other atrocities in war-torn western Darfur, secured a 68 percent majority in a poll marred by accusations of fraud and intimidation of voters.

Both the elections and the coming referendum were promised in a 2005 peace deal that ended more than two decades of civil war between Sudan’s mostly Muslim north and the South, where most follow traditional beliefs and Christianity.

The peace deal created a north-south coalition government including the south’s former rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM).

Sudan produces about 480,000 barrels of oil a day, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Bashir this month said he would give the oil ministry to the SPLM to allay fears the south was not getting its fair share of oil revenues.

CHALLENGES

Sudan, which gets about 60 percent of its revenues from oil, is keen to diversify its economy into, among other areas, agriculture and gold mining.

Bashir’s National Congress Party (NCP) retains control of many of the most prominent ministries, including finance, defence and the interior, and takes on foreign affairs, previously held by the SPLM.

Former state minister of foreign affairs Ali Ahmed Karti was promoted to lead the ministry.

The new government is facing a host of challenges in the buildup to the referendum, including drought and a spike in violence in Sudan’s western Darfur conflict.

Northern and southern leaders have still not decided on the position of their shared border. Sudan’s parliament earlier on Monday also postponed a long-awaited decision on the membership of a commission to organise the referendum after MPs objected to one of the panel members.

"Enormous challenges await the new Government of National Unity," said John Prendergast of the U.S.-based enough pressure group in an email interview.

"Getting the border demarcated will be a huge undertaking. And negotiating the terms of wealth sharing after the referendum will be the principal tool for preventing a return to full-scale war between the north and south."

Most of Sudan’s proven oil reserves are found in the south. But analysts say southerners will have to negotiate a revenue-sharing agreement with Khartoum if the south secedes, as the only pipelines currently pass through the north to Port Sudan on the Red Sea. (Writing and additional reporting by Andrew Heavens; editing by Andrew Roche).

Names of people who have been appointed in key ministerial posts are:

Ministers:

1 – Gen. Bakri Hassan Salih as the Minister of the Presidency of the Republic
2 – Dr. Luka Piong as the Minister of the Council of Ministers
3 – Gen. Abdel-Rahim Mohamed Hussein as the Minister of Defence
4 – Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid as the Minister of Interior
5 – Ali Ahmed Karti as the Minister of Foreign Affairs
6 – Mohamed Bushara Dosa as the Minister of Justice
7 – Ali Mohmoud Abdul-Rasool as the Minister of Finance and National Economy
8 – Kamal Abdul-Latif as the Minister of Human Resources Development
9 – Dr. Abdul-Halim Ismail Al-Muaafi as the Minister of Agriculture
10 – Dr. Awad Ahmed Al-Jaz as the Minister of Industry
11 – Dr. Azhari Al-Tigani Awadal-Seed as the Minister of Guidance and Endowments
12 – Kamal Mohamed Obeid as the Minister of Information
13 – Dr. Jalal Yousif Al-Degair as the Minister of International Cooperation
14 – Lual Achwel Deng as the Minister of Petroleum
15 – Peter Adok Neyaba as the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research
16 – Farah Mustafa Abdalla as the Minister of General Education
17 – Kamal Ali Mohamed as the Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources
18 – Usama Abdalla Mohamed Al-Hassan as the Minister of Electricity and Dams
19 – Eissa Bushra Mohamed as the Minister of Sciences and Technology
20 – Al-Samawal Khalafalla Al-Guraish as the Minister of Culture
21 – Abdalla Tiya Gumaa as the Minister of Health
22 – Amira Al-Fadil Mohamed Al-Fadil as the Minister of Social Welfare and Insurance
23 – Haj Majid Suwar as the Minister of Youth and Sports
24 – Chol Ram Pang as the Minister of Transport
25 – George Poreng Neombe as the Minister of Investment
26 – Elias Neyama Lel as the Minister of Foreign Trade
27 – Dr. Abdul-Bagi Al-Jailani as the Minister of Minerals
28 – Dr. Ahmed Babiker Nihar as the Minister of Antiquities, Tourism and Wildlife
29 – Joseph Malwal Dong as the Minister of Environment, Forestry and Urban Development
30 – Abdul-Wahab Mohamed Osman as the Minister of Roads and Bridges
31 – Ustaza Halima Hassaballa Al-Naeem as the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs
32 – Dak Dop Pishop as the Minister of Labour
33 – Dr. Faisal Hassan Ibrahim as the Minister of Animal Resources and Fisheries
34 – Joseph Lual Achwel as the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs
35 – Dr. Yahia Abdalla Mohamed Hamad as the Minister of Communications and Information Technology
 
State ministers:
 
1- Idris Mohamed Abdul Gadir, State Minister at the Presidency
2- Weik Mamer Kwal, State Minister at the Presidency
3- Dr. Amin Hassan Omer, State Minister at the Presidency
4- Dr.Mohamed Mukhtar Hassan Hussein, State Minister a the Council of Ministers
5- Ahmed Karamano Ahmed, State Minister at the Council of Ministers
6- Kong Der Gat Luk, State Minister at the Ministry of Interior
7- Grece Datero, State Minister at the Ministryof Foreign Affairs
8- Kamal Hassan Ali, State Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
9- Paul Lwal Wang, State Minister at the Ministry of Justice
10- Marial Awour, State Minister at the Ministry of Finance and National Economy
11- Dr. Al-Fateh Ali Siddig, State Minister at the Ministry of Finance and National Economy
12- Al-Samani Al-Wassila Al-Sheikh, State Minister at the Ministry of Human Resources Development
13- Abbas Guma Obeidalla, State Minister at the Ministry of Agriculture
14- Dr. Mohamed Ali Al-Haj Alloba, State Minister at the Ministry of Agriculture
15- Paul Marial Dot, State Minister at the Ministry of Industry
16- Khalil Abdulla, State Minister at the Ministry of Guidance
17- Sanna Hamad Al-Awad, State Minister at the Ministry of Information
18- Aboush Ajoke Ako, State Minister at the Ministry of International Cooperation
19- Yahya Hussein Babiker, State Minister at te Ministry of International Cooperation
20- Ali Ahmed Osman , State Minister at the Ministry of Petroleum
21- Prof. Khamis Kajouh Kindah, State Minister at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
22- Sua’ad Abdul Raziq, State Minister at the Ministry of General Education
23- Dr. Salah Yosuf, State Minister at the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources
24- As-Saddiq Mohammed Ali Al-Sheikh, State Minister at Ministry of Electricity and Dams
25- Dr. Sami Yasin Abdal Daim, State Minister at the Ministry of Sciences and Technology
26- Ali Majouk Al-Momin, State Minister at the Ministry of Culture
27- Dr. Hassab Al-Rassoul Babiker, State Minister at the Ministry of Health
28- Adil Awad Salman, State Minister at the Ministry of Social Welfare and Insurance; 29- Abu Al-Gasim Imam Mohammed Al-Haj, State Minister at the Ministry of Youth and Sport
30- Faisal Hamad Abdullah; State Minister at the Ministry of Transport
31- As-Saddiq Mohammed Ali Hassab Al-Rassoul, State Minister at the Ministry of Investment
32- Fadul Abdullah Fadul, State Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Trade
33- Abdul Wahid Yosuf Ibrahim, State Minister at the Ministry of Mining
34- Mohammed Abu Zaid Mustafa, State Minister at the Ministry of Antiquities, Tourism and Wildlife
35- Mabrouk Mubarak Salim, State Minister at the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Urban Development
36- Fadwa Shuwai Deng, State Minister at the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Urban Development
37- Hamid Mahmoud Al-Wakil, State Minister at the Ministry of Roads and Bridges
38- Dr. Amna Salih Dirar, State Minister at the Ministry of Labour
39- Ismail Khamis Galab, State Minister at the Ministry of Animal Resources and Fishery
40- Angelo Atak, State Minister at the Ministry of Animal Resources and Fishery
41- Dr. Mutrif Siddiq, State Minister at the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs
42- Teresa Siresio Eru, State Minister at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
 
Source(s): Reuters & SUNA
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