Salva Kiir Mayardit

Juba's President Salva Kiir Mayardit needed SRF fighters to help to recapture the strategic oil town of Bentiu from the South Sudanese rebels of the SPLA-in-Opposition (SPLA-IO)...

However few are positive about Salva Kiir...

This is part of the ambitious $24 billion Lamu Port South Sudan and Ethiopia Transport Corridor (Lapsset AC Vol 53 No 19 The rush for land & Vol 54 No 13 Unhappy anniversary) which is why Kenyatta's speech came as he met Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni...

In Brussels the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the State Department's Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration Simon Henshaw told AC that the US was concerned that there hadn't been any movement from the two leaders – President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Riek Machar – who were supposed to come to an agreement and work on a ceasefire...

The two men who bear greatest responsibility for the conflict President Salva Kiir Mayardit and former Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon held only proximity talks...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Rwandan President Paul Kagame and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit were present for the signing...

The pressures of war are mounting but President Salva Kiir Mayardit still sports a black ten-gallon hat and a hefty walking stick...

As Salva Kiir and his delegation left the seminar Obasanjo called them back with a simple message: if the leaders of South Sudan could find a way to make peace with Khartoum after half a century of warfare how could they not reach an agreement between themselves...

Paul Malong Awan has long been seen as a leader of Salva Kiir's Dinka homeboys from Bahr el Ghazal where he was previously State Governor...

At talks in Addis Ababa about forming an interim government in South Sudan some are pinning their hopes on a group of eleven politicians most of whom were ministers until they were sacked by President Salva Kiir Mayardit last July...

Three other East African presidents were there: Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta Somalia's Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan...

Hassan Sheikh and Salva Kiir are anxious to win Rwanda's support for their bids to join the East African Community...

In fact neither of the warring leaders in the South Sudan conflict – President Salva Kiir Mayardit or his sacked Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon is keen on IGAD's mediating role especially its plan to send in a stabilisation force though the government has reluctantly accepted it...

This is the first time that President Salva Kiir Mayardit has accepted that the roots of the crisis lie within the SPLM rather than in the claims of a coup attempt by his former Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...

The other two camps at the Addis talks are those loyal to Salva Kiir and the dissidents the Third Platform led by former Foreign Minister Deng Alor Kuol and SPLM former Secretary General Pa'gan Amum Okiech (still detained in Juba)...