Rebecca Nyandeng

Dr. John Garang signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement on July 30, 2005, and she continues to be a passionate champion for its implementation. She remained committed to seeing the peace process through until the South gained independence on July 9, 2011. Madam Rebecca visited the United States of America in the same year as her husband died and met with President George W. Bush. She expressed her gratitude for the United States’ contribution to the peace process in South Sudan. In 2009, President Obama worked with Secretary Clinton and Ambassador Rice to ensure that the Sudanese peace accord was carried out.

Rebecca Nyandeng has expressed her cncern with the Khartoum government’s implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). She joined the Southern army, which is now known as the Sudan People’s Liberation Army and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, during the war. She is well-known for her advocacy for South Sudan’s right to liberty, although having nothing to do with a united Sudan governed by democratic principles.

NPR also interviewed Madam Rebecca. She expressed her dedication to the freedom of South Sudan while also acknowledging the importance of a united Sudan as envisioned by Dr. John Garang in 1983. She went to Grinnell College and Iowa State University, where her late husband finished his degree before the Second Sudanese Civil War erupted in 1983. Dr. John Garang and his wife Rebecca have six children, all of whom are committed to peace and stability in the new Republic of South Sudan.