Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit wants to get a stronger grip on his government as dissatisfaction grows and tensions mount with the Khartoum government...
Salva Kiir near invisible as Sudan's first Vice-President left on 17 July for a six-day official visit to China which dominates Sudan's mainly Southern oil production...
This was unwise given the concerns of John Garang's then deputy Salva Kiir Mayardit now President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) made public at the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army conference in December 2004 about unaccountable business deals contracted by senior SPLM/A members...
His enthusiasm for representing the Khartoum regime resembles that of its Foreign Minister; this month he labelled the Darfur rebels as 'terrorists' and virtually sabotaged the SPLM's Juba meeting this week headed by Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit to reconcile the Darfur insurgents...
Marathon Oil Corporation Total's partner in the South has pulled out - just as Southern President Salva Kiir ordered Phil Edmonds's White Nile to leave the same concession...
In January the LRA walked out of talks in the South Sudanese capital Juba after President Omer and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit - for different reasons - threatened to 'get rid of' them unless they stopped attacking civilians...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
The public row on 8 January between President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and President of Southern Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit about Khartoum’s failure to implement the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and its use of militias to destabilise the South heralds another year of diplomatic brinkmanship and murderous militarism...
To formulate a strategy President of the GOSS and SPLA leader Salva Kiir Mayardit has commenced talks...
Soon afterwards at a mass rally in the town Salva Kiir demanded that Gabriel and Thomas be arrested all remaining militia be dissolved and that SAF troops not covered under the CPA be deployed to Northern Sudan...
After Garang's death in July 2005 his successor as national Vice-President and leader of the Government of Southern Sudan Sudan People's Liberation Movement and SPLA Salva Kiir Mayardit proved far more conciliatory...
According to London oil traders a deal was hammered out during GOSS President Salva Kiir Mayardit's visit to London last month...
Previously Salva Kiir and GOSS Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (who has mediated many oil deals in the South) had been reluctant to give ground to Khartoum because they believed their government was cheated of its equal share of revenue under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement...
There is widespread support in Africa for a UN force in Darfur: the AU's Peace and Security Council requested a UN force for Darfur as did the Darfur rebel movements and the Sudan Liberation Movement faction of Minni Arkou Minnawi (now acting as a government proxy militia) and the national First Vice-President and Southern President General Salva Kiir Mayardit...