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Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs (South Sudan)

South Sudanese government ministry

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ16896693 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs is a ministry of the Government of South Sudan. The incumbent minister is Chol Thon Balok who assumed the post on 30 March 2023.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs (South Sudan)” as south Sudanese government ministry. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ministry, Defence and Veterans.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2011. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ministry, Defence and Veterans providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs (South Sudan)”, the useful work is to connect “south Sudanese government ministry” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16896693. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2023.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs (South Sudan)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs (South Sudan) primary sources, Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs (South Sudan) archive and Ministry research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs (South Sudan)”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ministry of Defence and Veterans Affairs (South Sudan)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.