Citizens UN officials and western diplomats are infuriated by the failure of President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government to reach agreement with other parties to hold national elections due in December...

Originally scheduled for July 2015 the elections were postponed for three years due to clashes between the main protagonists: President Salva Kiir and First Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...

And new hold-outs emerged including Salva Kiir's chief of staff General Paul Malong Awan and Machar's chief of staff Gen...

' Talks this year between Salva Kiir and rivals in Nairobi finally agreed that elections could not be held without a new constitution...

During the China-Africa summit this month Salva Kiir met with officials of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) which has a 41% stake in South Sudan's Dar Petroleum Operating Company to discuss structural reforms in the industry and diverting output to a pipeline via Ethiopia and Djibouti...

That could leave President Salva Kiir Mayardit with little choice but to extend the tenure of the transitional government for a second time...

Until early in the year President Salva Kiir Mayardit was leaning towards Burhan with whom he had worked when President Omer Hassan el Beshir was in power in Khartoum...

Any SAF attack here could cut the pipelines and stop Salva Kiir's access to foreign exchange and thus the money that keeps his clientelist regime in power...

As the South Sudan pound continued its free-fall against the US dollar last month dropping to SS£1 800/$ from SS£1 100/$1 on the parallel market at the start of the year President Salva Kiir Mayardiit sacked Finance Minister Bak Barnaba Chol replacing him with technocrat Awou Daniel Chuang...

As the South Sudan pound continued its free-fall against the US dollar last month dropping to SS£1 800/$ from SS£1 100/$1 on the parallel market at the start of the year President Salva Kiir Mayardiit sacked Finance Minister Bak Barnaba Chol replacing him with technocrat Awou Daniel Chuang...

The long-serving South Sudanese ambassador to the United Nations Akuei Bona Malwal is being recalled to Juba after a series of misunderstandings which enraged President Salva Kiir we hear...

President Salva Kiir formally took over the reins at an EAC heads of state summit in Arusha on 24 November after other leaders agree to waive $21 million of its $36m arrears to the bloc...