Salva Kiir Mayardit

The next day President Salva Kiir Mayardit Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and VP James Wani Igga failed to show at a pre-arranged peace meeting organised by the main reconciliation bodies the churches (AC Vol 57 No 10 Power without responsibility)...

Yei a major SPLA garrison from 1997 has long provided refuge for people from Bahr el Ghazal Salva Kiir's homeland...

South Sudan's new post-civil war government the Transitional Government of National Unity looks like a return to the status quo ante before over two years of ruthless fighting erupted in December 2013 between President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...

Salva Kiir objects to many provisions of ARCISS refusing to sign without numerous handwritten reservations...

The old guard picks up the pieces August's peace agreement gives the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU) 16 posts from President Salva Kiir Mayardit's Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Government ten from Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's SPLM-In-Opposition (SPLM-IO) two Former Detainees (FD) and two from Other Political Parties (OPP)...

The events are also a product of the unrest and uncertainty caused by President Salva Kiir Mayardit dividing South Sudan into 28 states defined mainly by ethnicity (see Box New states exacerbate tensions)...

New states exacerbate tensions The 28 new regions which President Salva Kiir Mayardit for South Sudan in October have divided the country into ethnic areas leading to tension uncertainty and violence (AC Vol 56 No 21 New maps no peace)...

He was clear about his opposition to President Salva Kiir Mayardit's division of the country into 28 states (see Box New states exacerbate tensions)...

Under threat of sanctions President Salva Kiir Mayardit reappointed his old rival Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon as First Vice-President on 11 February but the two sides are still far apart on substantive issues and other appointments...

Last April Salva Kiir ordered Dinka and Mundari pastoralists in Central and Western Equatoria to return to their home areas to protect crops from their cattle...

Despite damning reports from the United Nations and African Union and threats of action against those seen as obstructing a peace deal there is not enough political will to pressure President Salva Kiir Mayardit to rescind his unilateral division of the country into 28 states (AC Vol 56 No 21 New maps no peace)...

' It blames Salva Kiir and a 'narrow circle of senior individuals in the military and security services' for 'waging an aggressive war involving the targeting of civilians and extensive destruction of communities'...

Salva Kiir increasingly relies on a few close supporters from his own Greater Bahr el Ghazal region especially members of the Jieng Council of Elders a self-appointed group of Dinka grandees and elder statesmen led by ex-Chief Justice Ambrose Riiny Thiik and a Sudanese ex-Deputy Premier under El Sadig el Mahdi Aldo Ajou Deng Akuei (AC Vol 46 No 10 Running the South & Vol 43 No 5 'Making politics and war together')...

SHRINKING BASEPresident Salva Kiir Mayardit's government shows little willingness to implement most of the agreement and his economic base is shrinking fast...

Many of the generals are sometimes illiterate militia leaders promoted on condition that they would integrate into the government army under Salva Kiir's 'big tent' policy and who then again jumped ship...

Their findings are likely to undermine further the credibility of President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government just as it announces a security deal in the capital with rebel forces led by sacked Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit had previously opposed decentralisation which his rival Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon had wanted IGAD complained...

After days of doubt President Salva Kiir Mayardit signed the agreement in Juba on 26 August...

IGAD pressured Salva Kiir by sending Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni Sudan's First Vice-President Bakri Hassan Salih and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to Juba beforehand...

Kampala's hands-on support for South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit is causing a rift in the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development which has been mediating in the negotiations...

This followed the embattled President Salva Kiir Mayardit's last- minute refusal on 13 August to sign the compromise peace agreement drawn up by IGAD (AC Vol 56 No 17 Politicians undermine new peace deal)...

In the previous week Museveni had invited members of the 'frontline states' (Ethiopia Kenya Sudan and Uganda) to a mini-summit in Entebbe where he assured Salva Kiir that several provisions of the draft agreement that he found unacceptable would be changed...