Salva Kiir Mayardit

On 8 November South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit signed a presidential decree to take northern parastatal Sudapet’s stakes in oil joint ventures with China National Petroleum Corporation India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd...

Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit responded with unaccustomed fury warning of a ‘pending invasion’ by Khartoum and ringing African and Western alarm bells...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s newly independent South Sudan backs its former fighters in the SPLA-N politically and many assume militarily...

Critics had been sharpening their knives: they pointed to the return of some ministers regarded as corrupt and the lack of the emphasis on a technocratic team promised by President Salva Kiir Mayardit...

• General John Kong Nyuon Defence & Veterans’ Affairs Jonglei Greater Upper Nile (GUN) Nuer SPL Army from start effective field commander throughout South; respected and feared; was close to President Salva Kiir Mayardit as Security Advisor...

) Alison Manani Magaya Interior: Western Equatoria Azande; long-time Labour Minister for National Congress Party in Khartoum; NCP till 2010 now SPLM; veteran 1st AnyaNya war; absorbed into army post-1972 pact with John Garang de Mabior and Salva Kiir...

Then instead of presenting the lowered Sudanese flag to Northern President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir as protocol dictated Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit held it back for the Southern heritage museum...

Colonel Gatlwak had surrendered after Salva Kiir announced another amnesty at the Independence Day celebrations...

June’s accord says Abyei is in the North: it previously had a distinct status under the national (now Northern) Presidency – to which Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit no longer belongs...

All this will test President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s powers of reconciliation...

Riek who is believed to want to succeed Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit is building an international profile...

Given that much of that debt was money borrowed by the Khartoum regime to buy weapons to attack the South and given that the South will be one of the poorest countries on the planet there seems little prospect that the Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit will agree to such a proposal...