Salva Kiir Mayardit

The national army the Sudan People's Liberation Army still loyal to President Salva Kiir Mayardit appears to have launched another offensive in the Lou Nuer areas of north-east Jonglei...

Shortage of funds may have more impact than mediation or sanctions on both President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government and the rebels led by his former Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (AC Vol 56 No 5 A test of everyone's will)...

It is these leading officials including President Salva Kiir Mayardiit and sacked Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon that the AU and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are trying to corral into a power-sharing deal to end the fighting that has cost over 50 000 lives in the past 15 months...

It is these leading officials including President Salva Kiir Mayardiit and sacked Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon that the AU and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are trying to corral into a power-sharing deal to end the fighting that has cost over 50 000 lives in the past 15 months...

It was once allied to Yau Yau and President Salva Kiir Mayardit accused Sudan of backing it...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit and the SPLM-IO leader Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon met face-to-face for hours into the night in Addis Ababa on 3 March but failed to agree on key points...

Extended mandateSalva Kiir has extended the presidential and parliamentary mandates due to expire on 9 July by two years and cancelled the elections...

An innovative alliance between United States' security expertise and Chinese capital – in the form of a Hong Kong-registered company called Frontier Services Group (FSG) – is giving critical support including flying reconnaissance missions to President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government...

Over the last two years though relations between Washington and Juba have sharply deteriorated; the US has ended its military training programme with Salva Kiir's government but Washington has rejected growing pressure from human rights groups to impose sanctions on both sides in the current conflict...

A tentative step forward has been made with a political reunification deal signed in Arusha on 21 January between President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his sacked Deputy Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon whose forces have been at war since December 2013 and Deng Alor Kuol for the former detainees (AC Vol 55 No 9 The third eleven enters the contest)...

Unsurprisingly allies of Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon whose episodic alliances with the Khartoum regime have dented his credibility in South Sudan have dismissed the documents as a fake produced by President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government...

That means that US aid is also helping to prop up his government and assisting his intervention in South Sudan on the side of President Salva Kiir Mayardit say political sources in Kampala...

The balance of opinion in IGAD has tilted towards President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government and is more sceptical about Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's position...

Salva Kiir dismissed Nhial Deng Nhial as Foreign Minister in the July 2013 reshuffle that triggered the crisis but armed with veteran SPLA credentials and a doctorate in law from Dundee UK Lieutenant General Nhial is still Juba's chief negotiator in Ethiopia...

Riek has rejected Salva Kiir's proposal of a new post of second vice-president for him...