Barnaba Marial Benjamin

Barnaba Marial Benjamin Bil (born 3 February 1957) is a South Sudanese politician. He was appointed in April 2021 as the minister of Presidential Affairs in the office of the President as of 2022 replacing Nhial Deng Nhial.

Barnaba Marial Benjamin is the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in the Cabinet of South Sudan. He was appointed to that position on 27 July 2013.

He has held various positions in the Cabinet of South Sudan since independence in 2005. He was information minister from 2010 to 2013.

== Education and early life ==

Benjamin has professional training in medicine and diplomacy. He studied Premedical Sciences at the University of Khartoum in 1965 and graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Cairo in 1970. He studied Hygiene and Tropical medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1983. At the Centre for African Reconnaissance (CARS), University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria South Africa in 2005, he studied Diplomacy and International Relations. He also attended the SPLM\SPLA Institute of Ideology and Strategic studies, Zink, Gambela, Ethiopia - 1984–1985. Before the Liberation struggle days, he worked...