Salva Kiir Mayardit

The CCP wants party-to-party ties with the SPLM and had mooted such cooperation with Chairman Salva Kiir Mayardit in 2007 and Deputy Chairman Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon in 2009...

Many still believe that the helicopter crash which killed SPLM Chairman John Garang de Mabior in 2005 was no accident and there is fear that his successor GOSS President and national Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit could be the next target...

After Khartoum flattened Abyei town in May 2008 SPLM leader Salva Kiir Mayardit also accused the regime of which he is First Vice-President of 'crimes against humanity' (AC Vol 49 No 12)...

Yassin el Haj Abdin; another Reading PhD (Geophysics); veteran Islamist who resurfaced (having worked in the presidency) last week in London to defend the census (AC Vol 50 No 11) as head of the census and Central Bureau of Statistics; after a row with Vice-President Salva Kiir he had condemned the UN who 'stuck their noses' into things that didn't concern them; from Marinjan Gezira...

When Southern Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit said this month that he was 'unhappy and unsatisfied' with the census results he was pointing to the next major clash between his Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the National Congress Party (aka National Islamic Front)...

He told Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit that Omer el Beshir should cooperate with the ICC...

Like many Northerners General Salva Kiir had already objected to the conduct of the 2008 census...

The intense two-day visit to the US capital by General Salva Kiir Mayardit may have been arranged by Bush's outgoing government but it is seen as a sign of things to come...

Southern Sudan is still run like a feudal state with President Salva Kiir Mayardit appointing people from among competing factions and ethnic interest groups in a complex balancing act...

Destabilising and undermining The SPLM will be more assertive in the North and abroad as signalled by national Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s meeting with outgoing US President George W...