Minister Joseph Lual Acuil Lual, (born 1948) also written as Joseph Lual Achuil, is a South Sudanese politician and civil servant, and the father of the Melbourne United basketball player

Jo Lual-Acuil Joseph Lual-Acuil Jr. (born 26 April 1994) is a South Sudanese-Australian professional basketball player for Melbourne United of the National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for Neosho County Community College and Baylor ...

Background

Joseph Lual is born in 1948 near

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, where he completed primary school in 1957. He attended secondary school at Ricks Institute in

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and received in 1973 a degree in Business Administration at the University of Liberia. From 1973 to 1978 Mr. Lual was a teacher at Ricks Institute, after which he joined the Liberian Ministry of Finance as a senior tax officer. Early 1980s he returned to Sudan and worked for the Bahr el Ghazal state administration till 1989. In the following ten years Mr Lual worked for the

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and the administrations of

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province and Warrap State. In 1999 he joined the World Food Programme (WFP) in South Sudan, where he was a senior national officer till June 2010, when he was appointed National Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management based in Khartoum for the Republic of Sudan. After Independence of South Sudan he joined the South Sudanese government in the same role as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management till 23 July 2013, when President

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relieved all ministers and re-configured the ministries. In May 2015 Joseph Lual Acuil was appointed by President Salva Kiir as Head of the National Communications Authority.

References

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