Francis M. Deng

Francis Mading Deng was born in 1938 near Abyei, in Kordofan, the son of Deng Majok, paramount chief of the Dinka Ngok. A law graduate of the University of Khartoum and a doctor of Yale, he was a human rights officer at the United Nations, then Sudan's ambassador to the United States, Canada and the Nordic countries, and minister of state for foreign affairs from 1976 to 1980. The first UN representative for displaced persons, from 1992 to 2004, and adviser on the prevention of genocide from 2007 to 2012, he became South Sudan's first ambassador to the United Nations. He has written or edited more than thirty books.

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