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Notices

30 October 2026UN Security Council updates the sanctions list (30/10/2026)

GABRIEL JOK RIAK MAKOL

UN reference
SSi.001
Sanctions regime
SouthSudan
Type
Individual
Designation
Former Sudan People’s Liberation Army’s (SPLA) Sector One Commander
Chief of Defence Forces
Nationality
South Sudan
Date of birth
1966-01-01
Place of birth
Bor, Sudan
Bor, South Sudan
Documents
Passport – D00008623 – South Sudan; Personal identification number – M6600000258472
Address
Unity State, South Sudan
Wau, Western Bahr El Ghazal, South Sudan
Aliases
Gabriel Jok; Jock Riak; Jok Riak
Listed on
1 July 2015
Updated by the UN
21 November 2018

Other information (UN original text)

Appointed as Chief of Defence Forces on 2 May 2018. Commanded SPLA Sector One, which operates primarily within Unity State, since January 2013. In his position as the SPLA Sector One commander, he has expanded or extended the conflict in South Sudan through breaches of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement. The SPLA is a South Sudanese military entity that has engaged in actions that have extended the conflict in South Sudan, including breaches of the January 2014 Cessation of Hostilities Agreement and the May 9, 2014 Agreement to Resolve the Crisis in South Sudan, which was a re-commitment to the CoHA and has obstructed the activities of IGAD’s Monitoring and Verification Mechanism. INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice:https://www.interpol.int/en/How-we-work/Notices/View-UN-Notices-Individuals

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