WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESSWIRE / May 13, 2024 / A little more than 10 years ago, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution declaring the decade from 2015-2024 as "The International Decade for People of African Descent."

At the start of that decade, South Sudanese business leader Akol Ayii was a few years into building the company he founded - Trinity Group, an investment firm focused on energy, construction, technology, agriculture and finance.

Ayii and Trinity's goals were simultaneously bold and simple: Establish unprecedented socio-economic resilience in South Sudan by stabilizing the supply of petroleum products in the region. Through Trinity Group's subsidiary, Trinity Energy, Ayii has spent the past decade delivering on that vision.

Fast-forward to the end of the UN's designated decade of African growth: Last month, Ayii was honored as "Young African Leader of the Year" by African Leadership Magazine, as part of its prestigious "Persons of the Year" ceremony held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The ceremony's theme - "building a resilient Africa in a period of global tensions and economic disruptions" - reflects Trinity's tangible successes in South Sudan, along with Ayii's goals for the future.

Energy innovation in service of South Sudanese stability is at the core of Trinity's accomplishments. Trinity has invested more than $13 million into its current retail network in South Sudan's capital of Juba and more than $5 million into the largest petroleum storage terminal in South Sudan.

Ayii and Trinity's leadership goes beyond energy innovation and security in South Sudan - Trinity employs more people than any other corporate operator in South Sudan, in addition to being South Sudan's leading corporate taxpayer.

Under Ayii's leadership, Trinity Group has championed sustainable development, ethical business practices and social responsibility.

Ayii's compliance framework model has set a new standard in South Sudan. Its four core elements - policy development, stringent standards of due diligence, compliance reviews, and training - takes a leadership position in a region in which regulatory scrutiny is high.

Trinity's plans to help increase energy resilience in South Sudan are as powerful as the work done over the past decade: They are diversifying their business to provide electricity to millions of South Sudanese who don't have access to grid power. Trinity is expanding its retail footprint to an additional 100 stations across four South Sudan states. They are investing an additional 150 million liters of fuel storage to safeguard the country against supply disruptions that are perennially being faced in the country due to a lack of adequate storage facilities. They are developing 40,000 barrels of oil per day to locally process South Sudan's crude oil at the Paluoch refinery.

Beyond regional energy stability and fuel distribution, Ayii has made a tangible commitment to innovative projects with direct social and economic impact. Most recently, Trinity's technology subsidiary mGurush has revolutionized financial inclusion in South Sudan by offering a new mobile money and digital payment platform.

Ayii's "Young African Leader of the Year" award was "in recognition of exceptional entrepreneurial achievements and unwavering commitment to fostering sound corporate practices within the business landscape of South Sudan."

Ayii echoed that, defining his and Trinity's foundational principles: "It is about vision, hard work and dedication."

The UN recognition of the past decade is powerful, but Akol Ayii has provided the model and inspiration for African leaders to accelerate socio-economic stability and resilience into the next decade to come.

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