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Salva Kiir Mayardit

Date of Birth: 1951
Place of Birth: Bahr el Ghazal


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Salva Kiir extends his rule as the oil cash runs out

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...


Poll hopes fade

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


As the civil war threatens the region, the UAE boosts Hemeti’s militia

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...


Polls fail to brighten outlook

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...


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The missing man in Arusha

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit has called an EAC leaders' summit for 15 April that is set to formally end Mathuki's three-year tenure and replace him with United Nations official Caroline Mwende Mueke (Dispatches 20/3/24 Quiet diplomacy doesn't work for sacked official)...

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Mix-up costs Juba envoy

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...


Arrears all round

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...


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Riyadh re-launches its Africa courtship

That could explain the presence in Riyadh of Eritrea's Issayas Afewerki and South Sudan's Salva Kiir in addition to regional heavyweights including Nigerian President Bola Tinubu Kenyan President William Ruto Rwanda's Paul Kagame and Ethiopian premier Abiy Ahmed...

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Cacophony of peace missions take off in Addis Ababa

The SAF want the IGAD effort to be led by South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit who skipped the Addis meeting and flew to South Africa...

And on 13 July Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi is planning to host yet another regional summit to which he has invited: South Sudan's Salva Kiir; Chad's Mahamat Idriss Déby 'Kaka'; Central African Republic's Faustin-Archange Touadéra; Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed; and Eritrea's Issayas Afewerki...

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