Angelina Teny

Angelina Jany Teny is a South Sudanese politician who served as minister of defence from March 2020 until her dismissal on 5 April 2023. From 2023 to 2026, she became the minister of interior in the South Sudan Revitalized Peace Agreement of South Sudan, signed in 2018 to end the 5-year civil war that started in 2013.

She was previously a state minister of energy and mining in the Khartoum-based Government of National Unity between 2005 and 2010. She ran for election as governor of Unity State in April 2010 but was defeated in an election that she claimed was fraudulent.

== Early life and career ==

Teny was educated in Great Britain and speaks both English and Arabic fluently. In November 2003, she facilitated a conference of South Sudanese women on "The House of Nationalities" held in Lokichokio, with goal of fostering peace and national unity through recognition of diversity.

== State minister of energy and mining ==

The Second Sudanese Civil War formally ended in January 2005 with establishment of an autonomous Government of South Sudan (GOSS) and as a defined process to move towards a referendum on full independence. Teny was a state minister of energy and mining in the Khartoum...