Salva Kiir Mayardit

The leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army and Sudan's national First Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit has warned the LRA to stop its operations in Southern Sudan or face all-out attack...

The conciliatory approach of the new Southern leader Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit has reduced tension between SSDF and SPLM (AC Vol 46 No 17)...

When Salva Kiir took over after John Garang's death on 30 July he abandoned the SPLM's tough approach...

The South's new leader Salva Kiir Mayardit is criticised for slowness in naming ministers and senior officials yet the SPLM is attempting the democratic participation that the NC can't afford...

This is Garang's successor Salva Kiir; it underscores Southern determination to proceed to nationhood and the prevalence of Christianity in what was a Muslim-ruled town...

Garang's successor Lieutenant General Salva Kiir Mayardit has said much the same...

First Vice-President: Lieutenant General Salva Kiir Mayardit SPLM; Bahr el Ghazal Dinka; solid military and reconciliation record...

Water Resources: Mayom Koch Malek South Sudan Democratic Forum; Gogrial Dinka from same village as Bona Malwal; Salva Kiir's relative; ex-SPLA officer; Sudan Relief & Rehabilitation Secretary East Bank 1986...

Few accept President Yoweri Museveni's claim in Washington on 21 September that the LRA is finished but the militia does face heavier pressure from the Ugandan People's Defence Forces (UPDF) and from the new militarily savvy leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army Salva Kiir...

The regime quietly pushed the NGO law through on 4 August in the stunned gap between Vice-President John Garang's death on 30 July and Salva Kiir Mayardit's succession on 11 August (AC Vol 46 No 17)...

Colonel Garang's death newspapers in Kenya and Uganda have given generous coverage to leaked transcripts of a meeting on 29 November-1 December 2004 at which the long-simmering feud flared up between Garang and his deputy (now his successor) Salva Kiir Mayardit...

Salva Kiir and the man who is now his deputy as Southern leader Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...

Salva Kiir Mayardit's 19 August appointment of Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon as Vice-President of Southern Sudan signals continuity and reconciliation...

As civilian politicians gradually displace the soldiers there is special interest in the futures of Lam Akol Ajawin (Shilluk) James Wani Igga (Equatorian) and Nhial Deng Nhial (Tonj Dinka touted last year as Salva's successor) and veteran politico Bona Malwal Madut Riing now back in Khartoum on good terms with President Omer el Hassan Ahmed el Beshir but sent there we hear by Salva Kiir...

Garang's successor Salva Kiir Mayardit survived a 22-year war despite his own brush with 'death by plane' as some African commentators call it...