Isaac Awan Maper, Date of Birth
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Minister for the Environment in the Cabinet of South Sudan
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About Isaac Awan Maper
- Isaac Awan Maper is a South Sudanese politician.
- He was the first Minister for the Environment in the Government of Southern Sudan and the caretaking government that followed immediately after the independence of South Sudan.
- He was a cabinet member in the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit that followed the general elections of April,2010. Maper is a veteran politician and a former guerrilla fighter.
- He was an active member of the Anya-Anya I movement, the rebels who fought the first liberation war against the central government in Khartoum between 1955 and 1972.
- After the signing of the Addis Ababa peace agreement between the Anya-Anya movement and the then government of late dictator Gaafar Nimeiry, Hon.
- Maper was absorbed into the civil administration in Southern Sudan as a high ranking administrative officer.
- He served in that capacity for years and worked in different towns of South Sudan.
- Maper later joined politics and ran for elections to the then regional assembly of Southern Sudan based in Juba.
- He held several ministerial positions in the cabinet of the High Executive Council of Southern Sudan.
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