Suzanne Jambo

Suzanne Jambo is a South Sudanese politician, lawyer, and human rights campaigner.

Education Suzanne Jambo earned a degree in public law from the University of Buckingham, United Kingdom. She worked with numerous local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in southern Sudan to improve their administration, efficiency and size. She was particularly involved in those organisations that sought to protect women's rights.

She founded the New Sudanese Indigenous Network (NESI), an organisation to bring together 20 Sudanese NGOs to work on common issues such as women's rights, post-conflict rebuilding, human rights and democracy. Jambo was appointed a commissioner for the Southern Sudan Law Drafting Commission which drafted the 2005 Constitution of the interim period, CPA of southern Sudan, 2005-2011. She was the first female to act as a secretary during the interim period and through to South Sudan’s Independence in 2011. She served in the same capacity until at least 2013 when she complained about lack of organisation and internal democracy in the SPLM as it is the ruling party.

In 2018, Suzanne won the Mandela prize for peace for her efforts in advocating for women rights.

She also disagreed with Mayardit over the appointment of his brother-in-law, Gregory Deng Kuac Aduol, as governor of Gogrial State rather than holding elections. As a result, Jambo is now a political opponent of the president. In October 2017, she announced her intention to stand for the presidency in the next South Sudanese general election. Jambo is the first female to run as a presidential candidate in South Sudan.