Angelina Teny
| Angelina Teny | |
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| State Minister of Energy and Mining | |
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In office January 2005 – April 2010 |
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| Citizenship | South Sudan |
| Spouse(s) | Riek Machar Teny |
Angelina Teny is a South Sudan politician who was state minister of Energy and Mining in the Khartoum-based Government of National Unity between 2005 and 2010. She ran for election as governor of Unity State in April 2010 but was defeated in an election that she claimed was rigged.
Angelina Teny was educated in Great Britain and speaks both English and Arabic fluently. She is the wife of Riek Machar Teny, former Vice-President of South Sudan. They have four children. Angelina Teny is one of the most prominent women politicians in South Sudan. In November 2003 Angelina Teny facilitated a conference of South Sudan women on "The House of Nationalities", held in Lokichokio, a concept designed to foster peace and national unity through recognition of diversity.
The Second Sudanese Civil War formally ended in January 2005 with establishment of an autonomous Government of South Sudan (GoSS) and a defined process to move towards a referendum on full independence. Angelina Teny was state minister of Energy and Mining in the Khartoum-based Government of National Unity between 2005 and 2010. At a November 2006 conference on Oil and the Future of Sudan, held in Juba, she noted that there had been considerable controversy over the Ministry of Energy and Mining when the Government of National Unity was being formed. The oil industry had been developed during the civil war as a means to finance that war, at great human cost, and military concerns had dictated the structure of the industry. Now the government was struggling to organize the National Petroleum Commission (NPC), but the SPLM had confidence in the process.
She said "Sudan now has the opportunity to develop the oil sector in order to support the peace, to ensure that unity is attractive, to ensure that those aggrieved during war get redressed, and to take our place in the modern world where oil is produced with social responsibility. Now is the time as a nation to put together a vision and strategy for theproper management of this strategic resource". She noted that contracts had to be reviewed, local people compensated and environmental issues addressed. The expansion of oil production south into the vast Sudd wetlands, protected under the international Ramsar Convention, raised significant challenges.
In a 2007 interview she noted that oil production and sales figures were given to her ministry by the Chinese-led Greater Nile Production Company. The ministry had no way of checking for accuracy. She said: "We have an oil revenue calculation committee, and every month, we look at the production and sales figures, and work out the figures for who takes what ... Right now, those figures are just based on production, and then shared between North and South. There isn't much trust, that's why you hear complaining from the South Sudan about the amounts they are getting". In October 2007 she said "GoSS [Government of Southern Sudan] is uncertain about the oil production figures released by the federal government and also feels that its quota is not fair. ...GoSS was not given any representation at the strategic stages of oil production and overseas marketing".
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