New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- Deepak Miglani, who is presently serving as the Ambassador to Sao Tome and Principe, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to South Sudan, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in an official statement on Wednesday.

He is expected to take up the assignment shortly.

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 (Southern Sudan ) in Sudan.

As per the MEA, in 2005, a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed (ceremony attended by the then Minister of State for External Affairs, E Ahmed) between the Government of Sudan and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in ...