Rtd. Gen. George Kongor Arop (born 1951) was the Second Vice President of Sudan from February 1994 to October 2000. He was a

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, the governor of

Bahr el Ghazal Bahr el-Ghazal (Arabic بحر الغزال , also transliterated ''Bahr al-Ghazal'', ''Baḩr al-Ghazāl'', ''Bahr el-Gazel'', or versions of these without the hyphen) may refer to two distinct places, both named after ephemeral or dry rivers. Chad ...

from 1992 to 1993, the president of the African National Congress and was granted an

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from the

University of Juba The University of Juba ( ar, جامعة جوبا) is an English-language public university located in Juba, South Sudan. It was founded in 1975 under by the former Vice president of and President of Southern Sudan, Abel Alier Kwai. The universi ...

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. His period as Governor of Bahr el Ghazal saw the acceleration of efforts at Islamization of the region. Kongor Arop was appointed by

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Omar al-Bashir as Second Vice President in February 1994 and was dismissed in October 2000. He was a member of the ruling Islamist National Congress Party until dismissed. He planned to contest for the presidency of Sudan in 2006. In 2017 he was appointed to the South Sudanese National Dialogue steering committee.

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Living people Vice presidents of Sudan Sudanese politicians 1951 births South Sudanese politicians National Congress Party (Sudan) politicians {{South-Sudan-politician-stub