Salva Kiir Mayardit

First Vice-President: Lieutenant General Salva Kiir Mayardit SPLM; Bahr el Ghazal Dinka; solid military and reconciliation record...

Water Resources: Mayom Koch Malek South Sudan Democratic Forum; Gogrial Dinka from same village as Bona Malwal; Salva Kiir's relative; ex-SPLA officer; Sudan Relief & Rehabilitation Secretary East Bank 1986...

Few accept President Yoweri Museveni's claim in Washington on 21 September that the LRA is finished but the militia does face heavier pressure from the Ugandan People's Defence Forces (UPDF) and from the new militarily savvy leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army Salva Kiir...

The regime quietly pushed the NGO law through on 4 August in the stunned gap between Vice-President John Garang's death on 30 July and Salva Kiir Mayardit's succession on 11 August (AC Vol 46 No 17)...

Colonel Garang's death newspapers in Kenya and Uganda have given generous coverage to leaked transcripts of a meeting on 29 November-1 December 2004 at which the long-simmering feud flared up between Garang and his deputy (now his successor) Salva Kiir Mayardit...

Salva Kiir and the man who is now his deputy as Southern leader Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...

Salva Kiir Mayardit's 19 August appointment of Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon as Vice-President of Southern Sudan signals continuity and reconciliation...

As civilian politicians gradually displace the soldiers there is special interest in the futures of Lam Akol Ajawin (Shilluk) James Wani Igga (Equatorian) and Nhial Deng Nhial (Tonj Dinka touted last year as Salva's successor) and veteran politico Bona Malwal Madut Riing now back in Khartoum on good terms with President Omer el Hassan Ahmed el Beshir but sent there we hear by Salva Kiir...

Garang's successor Salva Kiir Mayardit survived a 22-year war despite his own brush with 'death by plane' as some African commentators call it...

John and his deputy since the death of William Nyuon Bany in 1992 Salva Kiir Mayardit...

In that time the leaders of the SPLM/A have been meeting to confirm the succession to the leadership of Salva Kiir Mayardit to discuss future plans - and to mourn...

SPLM leaders began their talks at dusk on 1 August emerging three hours later with a statement confirming Salva Kiir as new leader...

UNMIS responsible for ceasefire monitoring and verification has signalled its support for Salva Kiir and the SPLM; UN organisations in general which often had a touchy relationship with Garang have rushed to support the movement in its time of need...

Focused on the South Southerners welcomed Garang's 19 July appointment of key SPLM leaders Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Nhial Deng Nhial as Southern governors and Salva Kiir Mayardit as Southern Vice-President...

Three deputy chairmen: SPLA Chief of Staff Salva Kiir Mayardiit (Bahr el Ghazal); Commander Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (Upper Nile); Cdr...