{"id":40244,"date":"2025-10-07T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T08:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=40244"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:20:43","slug":"koang-assumes-deputy-defense-docket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/koang-assumes-deputy-defense-docket\/","title":{"rendered":"KOANG: Assumes Deputy Defense docket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Yiep Joseph<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Salva Kiir Mayardit has appointed Gen. Koang Choul as the deputy minister of defense and veteran affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The changes were made through a presidential decree readout on the state-owned broadcaster, the SSBC.<\/p>\n<p>Koang was recently relieved from the position of the Upper Nile governor.<\/p>\n<p>After his relief, he retreated back to Juba just a few days before his appointment.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar development, the president relieved Deng Alor Kuol as minister of East African Affairs and appointed Beny Gideon Mabor in his place.<\/p>\n<p>Beny was recently serving as the undersecretary in the ministry of East African Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The head of state, who also served as the Commander in Chief of the South Sudan People\u2019s Defense Forces (SSPDF), in a separate decree transfer made changes in the command of the presidential guard.<\/p>\n<p>The president and the commander in chief of the forces promoted Baak Makuei to the rank of general and transferred him to head the presidential guards, the tiger division.<\/p>\n<p>Makuei replaced Philip Nyon Nyon, who was previously commanding the forces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yiep Joseph President Salva Kiir Mayardit has appointed Gen. Koang Choul as the deputy minister of defense and veteran affairs. The changes were made through a presidential decree readout on the state-owned broadcaster, the SSBC. Koang was recently relieved from the position of the Upper Nile governor. After his<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/koang-assumes-deputy-defense-docket\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":40245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Koang-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40250,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40244\/revisions\/40250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}