[1] At the time of his death, Ambassador Telar was nominated to the Revitalized Transitional National Assembly by SPLM-IO, and was primed as the Minority Leader.
It is understood that President Kiir retracted his earlier position of allocating Lakes state to SPLM-IO after it became apparent to him that Dr. Riek had nominated Ambassador Telar for governorship.
[2] He was reappointed by President Kiir as Legal Advisor, a post that he served before being named designate Justice Minister.
[10] In October 2014, he was named as the new South Sudanese envoy to the Russian Federation,[11] a post he held until resigning in January 2018.
[12] Telar Ring died on 27 December 2020, reportedly from COVID-19 in Juba at the Aspen Medical Center, where he was being treated for the disease.