{"id":45908,"date":"2026-07-07T14:28:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=45908"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:28:23","slug":"president-kiir-reasigns-minister-of-higher-education-as-envoy-for-the-great-lakes-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/president-kiir-reasigns-minister-of-higher-education-as-envoy-for-the-great-lakes-region\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kiir reasigns Minister of Higher Education as envoy for the Great Lakes Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Yiep Joseph<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Salva Kiir Mayardit has relieved Madut Biar Yel of his duties as Minister of Higher Education.<\/p>\n<p>The changes were announced through presidential decrees on the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>According to the decrees, President Kiir appointed Changkuoth Bichok as the new Minister of Higher Education, taking over the portfolio immediately.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate decree, President Kiir appointed the outgoing minister, Madut Biar Yel, as Presidential Envoy for the Great Lakes Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yiep Joseph President Salva Kiir Mayardit has relieved Madut Biar Yel of his duties as Minister of Higher Education. The changes were announced through presidential decrees on the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) on Monday evening. According to the decrees, President Kiir appointed Changkuoth Bichok as the new<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/president-kiir-reasigns-minister-of-higher-education-as-envoy-for-the-great-lakes-region\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":45909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,80,79,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-2","category-national","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Madut-Biar-Yel-former-Minister-of-Higher-Education-courtesy-photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45908","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45910,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45908\/revisions\/45910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}