New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- Anil Nautiyal, currently serving as the Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of South Sudan.

The Ministry of External Affairs in a press release said, "Shri Anil Nautiyal (YOA: 2004), presently Joint Secretary in the Ministry, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of South Sudan."

"He is expected to take up the assignment shortly," the release added.

Nautiyal will replace Vishnu Kumar Sharma as the Ambassador of India to South Sudan.

South Sudan was a part of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from 1899-1955 under joint British Egyptian rule. After two civil wars (1962-72 and 1983-2005), it became an autonomous region...