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)...

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...

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)...

After deploying troops to Juba in March he tweeted: ‘The Ugandan People's Defence Forces only recognise one president of South Sudan: HE Salva Kiir...

The simmering conflict south of the border has also spilled north with elements of Machar's SPLM-In Opposition (SPLM-IO) faction reportedly sympathetic to the SAF while President Salva Kiir Mayardit has cultivated ties with the UAE – widely seen as a key Rapid Support Forces (RSF) backer – prompting speculation about shifting allegiances...

Salva recently appointed his daughter Adut Salva Kiir as Senior Presidential Envoy on Special Programmes – a role previously held by Benjamin Bol Mel now Second Vice-President and Deputy Chair of the SPLM-IG (AC Vol 66 No 17 Salva's family values)...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit has strengthened his control over his government's economic ministries by appointing his eldest daughter Adut Salva Kiir as a senior economic advisor and dismissing two key economic ministers...

In July Salva Kiir undertook a 10-day state visit to the UAE...

The offer was made after a phone call between Trump's special advisor on Africa Massad Fares Boulos and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit we hear (AC Vol 66 No 8 How Trump's in-law shut down the Kinshasa lobbyists)...

Salva Kiir is warming to the idea; offering sweetheart deals to US firms to invest in the country's oil and gas the infrastructure for which has been damaged by fighting in neighbouring Sudan...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit is the latest African leader to enlist a Republican-linked lobbying firm on K-Street hiring Scribe Strategies & Advisors on a six-month $500 000 contract...

The UAE's influence in South Sudan is believed to be represented by the new First Vice-President Benjamin Bol Mel who also serves as the First Deputy Chairman of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and is believed to be the custodian of President Salva Kiir Mayardit's business interests (AC Vol 66 No 8 Ailing Salva ups the ante)...