Sarah Cleto Hassan Rial (born 10 November 1967) is a South Sudanese politician and human rights activist[1][2] who was the governor of Western Bahr el Ghazal from 2020 until 2024.
[3][4][5][6] In November 2024, she was replaced as governor by president Kiir, who made her a member of the Council of States.
[7][8] Hassan was born on 10 November 1967 in the village of Abu Shaka, Bahr el Ghazal.
She attended the College of Social and Economic Studies, at the University of Juba, previously in Khartoum Sudan and graduated with a B.S.
in the Program for Women in Politics and Public Policy, at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2006 and a graduate with Certificate of Peace and Conflict Resolution from the Rotary Peace Centre, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand in 2014.