Barnaba Marial Benjamin

There was ‘a solid group doing the thinking for the South’ commented one long-standing SPLM official citing party Secretary General Pa’gan Amum Okiech Justice Minister John Luk Jok and Information and Broadcasting Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin Bil all SPLM veterans...

Africa-Asia Confidential spoke to the South Sudan government’s Spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin who told us that a Chinese company is building a new terminal at Juba International Airport...

It is unclear whether this agreement is the US$8 billion Chinese loan that government Spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin announced on 28 April...

South Sudanese Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said that after the shutdown his government had discovered that the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company – which operates in Unity State and is run by CNPC (40%) Petronas (30%) and ONGC Videsh (25%) – had 41 producing wells of which it had known nothing...

However when South Sudan’s Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin announced Juba’s oil pipeline and refinery plans on 26 January he said that the companies from China India and Malaysia currently operating in South Sudan would build the new infrastructure...

Better known quantities include such trusted (Dinka) veterans as Deng Alor Kuol at Cabinet Affairs Nhial Deng Nhial at Foreign Affairs and the affable discreet government Spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin who remains at Information and Broadcasting...

• Barnaba Marial Benjamin Bil Information & Broadcasting (no change): GUN Jonglei Nuer; veteran SPLM representative in Zimbabwe in the 1980s during Roland ‘Tiny’ Rowland’s Lonrho’s patronage of the Movement...

The Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Information Minister SPLM veteran Barnaba Marial Benjamin and the SPLA Spokesman Colonel Philip Aguer Panyang said they regretted any injuries to UNMIS staff ‘if’ they had been caused by an SPLA JIU soldier but an investigation was needed...

Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said that South Sudan plans to increase its diplomatic representation from 13 to 24 countries in the short term opening embassies in its largest Asian trading partners...

Since then over 20 officials – ministers governors and county commissioners – have gone to China including veteran Southern politician Barnaba Marial Benjamin the Information Minister...