Salva Kiir Mayardit

Many applaud President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s capacity to pardon and accommodate former enemies which has helped to give Southerners a unity of purpose but some wonder where the line should be drawn...

Salva Kiir may now try to bring more oppositionists into his government Africa Confidential has heard...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit had told the new police to clear the streets of gangs engaging in ‘immoral’ activities...

Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi arrived in Juba on 9 August to meet President Salva Kiir Mayardit and outline the shape of future diplomatic ties...

Nhial came to Defence from his post as Regional Affairs Minister an appointment that he accepted in South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s government in 2005...

Hung visited Khartoum on 21-25 June meeting both Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit...

The meeting was the latest in a series of high-level visits from Chinese officials most recently that of Assistant Foreign Affairs Minister Zhai Jun who called on GOSS President Salva Kiir Mayardit on 22 February...

Southern Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit is a Roman Catholic born in Bahr el Ghazal a southern province bordering the Central African Republic...

After the 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement brought the rebellion to a close Salva Kiir like many soldiers was absorbed into the Sudanese army...

The SPLM made its first official contact in a March 2005 delegation to Beijing led by its then-deputy Chairman Salva Kiir Mayardit who became South Sudan’s leader following the death a few months later of the SPLM’s charismatic Chairman John Garang de Mabior...

Salva Kiir followed up that visit in July 2007 then as President of Southern Sudan and First Vice-President of Sudan...

Comprising President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha and First Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit the Presidency has a built-in NCP majority...

This week on 15-16 November Ngok leaders came together in an Abyei Referendum Forum opened by GOSS President Salva Kiir Mayardit...