Salva Kiir Mayardit

Beijing set up a consulate in 2008 after Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit visited in 2007...

Salva Kiir’s government is trying to move forward but progress is slow...

Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit seemed to take the NCP by surprise by proposing that United Nations troops (already in Sudan) form a buffer zone about 15 kilometres wide between the Sudan People’s Liberation Army and the Sudan Armed Forces...

Diplomats and politicians in New York sketched out several possible areas of conflict ranging from Khartoum attacking across the (still undemarcated) North-South border focusing on Abyei to sponsoring militias to undermine Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government in Juba...

SPLM Chairman Salva Kiir says the referenda are indivisible...

The uncrowned king of this week’s United Nations summit Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit has slammed the strategy and also accused the NCP of backing Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)...

Arguments have already erupted over whether NCP strongman and Second Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha or First Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit – who might soon be the first President of a newly independent South Sudan – will lead Sudan’s delegation...

Beforehand civil service head Francis Muthaura had reconfirmed that Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit was the invited dignitary from Sudan...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s government knows there is no love lost between Cairo and the NCP regime that in 1995 it accused of trying to kill Hosni Mubarak...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit announced that one is Environment and the other Wildlife Conservation and Tourism...

Khartoum has the means to delay the Abyei vote (and thereby disrupt the Southern referendum) since the District is governed by the Presidency – President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir First Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha – an inbuilt NCP majority...

Outraged Nuba in South Sudan petitioned Southern President Salva Kiir for Telephone Kuku’s immediate release; others have threatened to fight for his freedom...

24% in the presidential vote it might look reasonable in comparison with Salva Kiir Mayardit’s 92...