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South Sudan

Salva Kiir Mayardit

Date of Birth: 13 September 1951
Place of Birth: Bahr el Ghazal


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Washington hits Salva Kiir’s revenue machine

Washington's labelling of Crawford Capital which manages most of South Sudan's non-oil revenues as a ‘corrupt entity' lands close to President Salva Kiir Mayardit's office and his family...

It exposes a company and a network that non-governmental organisations and the UN have accused of diverting state resources and aid funds in alliance with political appointees (Dispatches 18/5/26 Washington turns on Salva Kiir on corruption and governance)...

' ADUT SALVA KIIR'S SHADOW TREASURY President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his family are among the strongest defenders of Crawford Capital and its affiliated companies such as British-registered Capital Pay...

The principal shareholder of Capital Pay with a 61% stake is Garang Mayom Kuoc Malek a wealthy businessman closely linked to Adut Salva Kiir the President's daughter...

Formerly a contender to succeed Salva Kiir Mel was stripped of his rank without explanation in November...


Siege mentality pushes politics to brink

After he ordered his arrest and detention a year ago President Salva Kiir Mayardit systematically replaced all Machar loyalists in government the national assembly and party structures with his own appointees...


How Juba is engineering mass hunger

How President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government with its reliance on foreign aid could finance such reparations is another question...

(AC Vol 65 No 20 Salva Kiir extends his rule as the oil cash runs out)...


The Absentee Union

Youssouf has little diplomatic clout and was swiftly rebuffed by South Sudan's President Salva Kiir when he attempted to mediate following the arrest of Vice-President Riek Machar (AC Vol 66 No 7 Salva sidelines Riek)...


Undoing what remains of the nation

A ceasefire gives them breathing space and time to train younger recruits from the Sahel and South Sudan while improving logistics by collaborating with Libya's eastern warlord Gen Khalifa Haftar Chadian President Idriss Déby Mahamat ‘Kaka' Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir...


Spinning out of control

With the economy racing downhill the peace process ever more fragile and the political landscape dominated by the treason trial of former First Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and his associates embattled President Salva Kiir Mayardit did what he does best – reshuffling his cabinet (AC Vol 66 No 7 Salva sidelines Riek)...


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Fears of civil war grow as Kiir charges Machar

By charging First Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and 20 others with murder treason and crimes against humanity President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government is raising concerns that all sides will abandon the 2018 peace accord and restart the civil war...

Uganda has sent military support to Salva Kiir in defiance of a UN arms embargo...

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