But international pressure and the threat of financial support being cut appears to have forced President Salva Kiir Mayardit to finally relent...

Abiy and Issayas have made efforts to bring South Sudan into their orbit holding tripartite discussions with President Salva Kiir in 2019...

In a joint communiqué from Juba Sisi and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit spoke of military and security cooperation...

President Salva Kiir's implementation of key already agreed processes is so slow his critics say it could eventually trigger a military response from the former rebels...

The same day however Mabior Garang de Mabior son of the liberation hero John Garang and prominent critic of his successor President Salva Kiir Mayardit resigned as deputy interior minister citing the failure of the national unity government to fully implement the provisions of the peace deal or to cope with the pandemic (AC Vol 59 No 19 No cash no peace)...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit sacked the Chief of Defence Forces General Gabriel Jok Riak on 11 May over a failure to act quickly enough to thwart a coup attempt sources in Juba have told Africa Confidential...

The latest should have taken place on 21 April but South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit pulled out...

There is mounting international concern at the delays in implementing the latest peace agreement and that President Salva Kiir Mayardit is flouting the spirit of the deal...

Last year President Uhuru Kenyatta allocated to both Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardiit land in Naivasha to construct their own dry ports...

Last year President Uhuru Kenyatta allocated to both Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardiit land in Naivasha to construct their own dry ports...