Gordon Muortat Mayen

Biography:

Gordon Muortat Mayen Maborjok was a South Sudanese veteran politician and a struggler for the rights and freedom of the South Sudanese people. He was the President of the Nile Provisional Government which led Anyanya I; Southern Sudan's first armed resistance to Khartoum which started in 1955. Muortat also served as Vice-President of the Southern Front and Foreign Minister in the Southern Sudan Provisional Government.