Updated 9/8/12
For Immediate Release
The United Sudanese And South Sudanese Communities Association USASSCA announces the Acting Board of the organization that will work over the coming year to help in the USASSCA Steering Committee in the creation of an elected USASSCA Congress with broad representation not only from Diaspora communities in the United States but from nations around the world.
Currently six regions have five representatives on the Acting Board. One region, Beja, currently has only one and another region, North and Central Sudan, has no representatives at this time.
Representatives on the Acting Board at this point are listed below by region along with the state in the United States in which they reside.
Bahr El-Ghazal
- Gaw Ngong – Iowa
- Wilson Chawul – Minnesota
- Mona Ghono – Iowa
- Garang Majouk – Iowa
- Dhalbeny Malual – Nebraska
Beja
- Ibrahim Tahrir Ahmed -Washington DC
- TBD
- TBD
- TBD
- TBD
Blue Nile
- Khalifa Uda – Utah
- Sabanaya Musa – Maryland
- Sabania Kodi – Utah
- Rehab Yakub – Utah
- Abdu Matut Silla – Nebraska
Darfur
- Ali Hassan – Iowa
- Abdelhamid Ibrahim – Nebraska
- Mustafa Omar – Iowa
- Ramandan Harun – Nebraska
- TBD
Equatoria
- Khamis Artema – Minnesota
- Pastore Kwajok – Iowa
- Kwaje Lasu – North Carolina
- Jobickson Modi – Texas
- Jaden Oriho – Iowa
Nuba Mountains
- Father Bashir Abdu Samad – Ohio
- Khaled Abu Zeid – Washington
- Ekram Kachu – Iowa
- Jumaa (Adam) Kuku – Iowa
- Mende Nazer – New York
Upper Nile
- John Kele – Iowa
- Lero Odal – Minnesota
- Agok Manyang – Iowa
- Mun Kaok – Iowa
- Rev. Francis Chan – Iowa
Central Sudan
There is no current representation of North and Central Sudan on the Acting Board of USASSCA