Deng Alor Kuol

Deng Alor Kuol (Arabic: دينق ألور) is a South Sudanese politician. He has served as the minister of East African Community Affairs in President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government. He is a member of the Ngok Dinka ethnic group, and was born in Abyei region, an oil-producing border region between Northern and Southern Sudan.

He is also Uncle to Achai Wiir, a South Sudanese renowned businesswomen.

In October 2007, Alor was appointed Foreign Minister of Sudan, replacing Lam Akol, in what was seen as an attempt to appease the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement. Alor had previously been minister of cabinet affairs in Khartoum's national unity government. Alor remained Sudan's foreign minister until 2010.

After the independence of South Sudan, he briefly served as minister of foreign affairs until being removed by President Kiir, being appointed to that position on 10 July 2011. Alor was one of 10 senior SPLM officials arrested by Salva Kiir in December 2013 but later released.

In July 2020, President Kiir appointed Deng Alor Kuol to the vacant East African affairs ministry, replacing the late John Luk Jok, who died in June 2020.

== South Sudanese politics ==

Alor, a member of the SPLM Former...