Salva Kiir Mayardit

The name of the Presidential Committee for Peace Reconciliation and Tolerance in Jonglei State clearly signals that Archbishop Daniel is working in tandem with the Government of South Sudan (GOSS) whose DDR campaign President Salva Kiir Mayardit launched on 12 March...

Salva Kiir brought most of Khartoum’s militias into the SPLA under the 2006 Juba Declaration...

Heglig (see Map) is widely seen as being in South Kordofan Sudan though South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit claimed it as Southern on 26 March when the SPLA first went into the town...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit accused it of ‘looting’ $815 mn...

General Salva Kiir’s team knows that challenging Khartoum is the most popular move it can make...

The most talked-about is one via Kapoeta and Lokichoggio to a new transport hub at Lamu; Juba and Nairobi signed a memorandum of understanding this month after President Salva Kiir Mayardit met Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki...

That and calling Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s recent visit to Israel ‘satanic’ have lost a lot of the goodwill El Sadig had won by attending Southern Independence on 9 July...

However President Salva Kiir Mayardit was disappointed by his recent visit to Washington we hear and there is widespread sadness in the South at United States President Barack Obama’s apparent lack of interest...

Presidents Salva Kiir Mayardit and Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir signed an agreement stipulating how much South Sudan would pay Sudan for transportation transit and processing fees...

South Sudan’s government and ruling party have welcomed the billions of dollars in promised investment that resulted from President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s April visit to Beijing but they are calling for China to take a more active role in the resolution of the conflict...

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s ‘order’ to Salva Kiir to withdraw his troops from Heglig (seen abroad as Sudanese but in the non-delineated border area) went down badly in a country rejoicing in a sovereignty for which it had battled for half a century...

Beyond that they had failed publicly to identify the National Congress Party (NCP) regime in Khartoum as mainly responsible for blocking the completion of the ‘unfinished business’ of the CPA including oil and border details and treated Salva Kiir’s and President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir’s governments even-handedly...

Salva Kiir paid an official visit to Bejing – his second as President but first since Independence last July...

Salva Kiir has not threatened to march on Khartoum...

Border clashes between Sudan and South Sudan brought an early close to Salva Kiir Mayardit’s trip to China originally due to end on 28 April...

After a session with President Hu Jintao on 24 April in which Salva Kiir said that the North had ‘declared war on South Sudan’ the two leaders signed an economic agreement that included a loan from China Export-Import Bank...

Salva Kiir’s diary also included an appointment with Jiang Jiemin Chairman of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) the state-owned company that owns 40% of the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company...

By the time Salva Kiir decided to cut the trip short a Sudanese delegation had arrived with a slate of high-level meetings on the agenda...

While Salva Kiir may have brought home a financial treasure in the form of the Exim Bank loan it was Ghandour who scored a public-relations coup by taking his message straight to the airwaves...

Kenya was reticent about such a plan for years until President Mwai Kibaki South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Ethiopia’s Premier Meles Zenawi inaugurated it last month...