Salva Kiir Mayardit

Malong left Juba on 9 May straight after President Salva Kiir Mayardit abruptly sacked him...

BTP also advised and lobbied on behalf of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit against his opponent Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon in 2016...

So President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government's decision to raise work permit fees for senior foreign staff from US$100 to $10 000 a year has caused outrage among non-governmental organisations and accusations of profiteering...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit's beleaguered government seems not to grasp the seriousness of the 20 February official declaration of famine jointly by Juba and the United Nations or the extent of international concern and opprobrium since the starvation is entirely man-made...

Ethiopia has also been putting out stories of a 'dirty deal' between Cairo and Juba under which Egypt would provide arms to President Salva Kiir Mayardit who is threatened with an arms embargo...

The realisation that President Salva Kiir Mayardit's peacemaking strategy – dubbed by cynics 'Pax Salvatica' because he implemented it unilaterally – has failed to deliver anything other than misery and hunger all round is slowly dawning on the international guarantors of the near-moribund Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (ARCISS) signed in August 2015 (AC Vol 57 No 14 Cracks widen in peace deal)...

' Salva Kiir's response has been to initiate a new process of 'national dialogue' urging the armed opposition to cease all hostilities warning that his government 'will take serious measures' against those found to be 'broadcasting ethnic hatred' and those who refuse to 'renounce violence and join peaceful dialogue'...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit's agreement to expel or disarm Sudanese oppositionists (some 200 armed men says an SRF source) in South Sudan has damaged it further...

Meanwhile taking part helps Museveni fend off foreign criticism of his domestic policies and his support for President Salva Kiir Mayardit in South Sudan...

An investigation by a United Nations Panel of Experts (PoE) still unpublished is uncharacteristically forthright in its criticism particularly of the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit...

One of the PoE's most damaging findings is that statements by Salva Kiir ministers such as Michael Makuei and the Jieng (Dinka) Council of Elders led by former Chief Justice Ambrose Riiny Thiik and Joshua Dau Diu have 'consistently displayed hostility toward the UN and misrepresented its work and intentions'...

Most international organisations planning the new force are reluctant to grant the concessions demanded by President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his supporters...