Salva Kiir Mayardit

Yien this month claimed Salva Kiir Mayardit last year lost the election for GOSS President to Lam Akol and that the end of the SPLM is nigh...

At a Meeting of the National Presidency (Omer Salva Kiir and Second Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha) Salva said the SPLM could not yield more land in Abyei and would have to ‘take it by force’ we hear...

Last October GOSS President Salva Kiir Mayardit pardoned most rebels after agreeing a truce...

Salva Kiir Mayardit President of Africa's newest state in July was in demand at the 24-31 January African Union summit in Addis Ababa...

As the clashes continue Presidents Omer el Beshir and Salva Kiir Mayardit met in Khartoum together with the South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki head of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on 27 January in the run up to the African Union summit (see Feature)...

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...