Jimmy Lemi Milla had been the rural development minister since August 2010 A Southern Sudanese minister has been shot dead inside his ministry building in the capital, Juba.
Jimmy Lemi Milla, Minister for Rural Development, was killed by a driver working at the ministry, said Philip Auger of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA).
The assailant also killed a guard and then shot himself, Mr Auger added.
After a referendum vote, Southern Sudan is due to become the world’s newest independent state on 9 July.
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