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South Sudan

Salva Kiir Mayardit

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


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Who wants the oil?

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...


Freight storm hits the port

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...


The fourth horseman

Meanwhile the Revitalised Government of National Unity stipulated by the September 2018 peace agreement is slowly taking shape after President Salva Kiir Mayardiit finally relented –less than a week before the 22 February deadline – and revoked the biggest stumbling block: his unilateral decision to increase the number of states from ten to 32 (AC Vol 61 No 3 Beyond a hundred days)...

Meanwhile the Revitalised Government of National Unity stipulated by the September 2018 peace agreement is slowly taking shape after President Salva Kiir Mayardiit finally relented –less than a week before the 22 February deadline – and revoked the biggest stumbling block: his unilateral decision to increase the number of states from ten to 32 (AC Vol 61 No 3 Beyond a hundred days)...


Beyond a hundred days

In an effort to reward existing allies ahead of the reshuffle required by power-sharing President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been handing senior military positions to key loyalists...


Peace deal wheelspin

  In the run-up to both of the past two deadlines President Salva Kiir Mayardit has threatened to form a government without Riek...


Juba's payday loan habit

Sahara enjoyed a close relationship with Gatkuoth which may have prompted his sacking by President Salva Kiir Mayardit on 10 June according to industry sources in South Sudan...


'Not even the Pope'

On 10 and 11 April South Sudan's rival warring leaders President Salva Kiir Mayardit and former Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon met at the Vatican face to face for perhaps the last time before the two sides are due to form a unity government in May...


Bumps on the road to peace

The government army loyal to President Salva Kiir Mayardit (now known as the South Sudan People's Defence Force – SSPDF) has made common cause with Riek Machar's SPLA-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) in a joint offensive against members of the National Salvation Front which backs the Equatorian strongman Lieutenant General Thomas Cirillo Swaka in his refusal to sign last year's Khartoum Peace Agreement (AC Vol 59 No 19 No cash no peace)...


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