Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior (Rebecca Garang)

Lam Akol Ajawin of the South Sudan Democratic Movement; Pa'gan Amum Okiech leader of the Real Sudan People's Liberation Movement (currently in opposition) and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior the Fourth Vice-President in the transitional government and widow of former President John Garang are all likely contenders for the presidency but will not stand against Kiir until the peace agreement has been implemented say insiders (AC Vol 59 No 19 No cash no peace)...

Mabior's mother Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior who as John Garang's widow is effectively dowager mother of the nation is similarly unimpressed by Salva but he needs both on board to convince doubters that he is serious about the establishment of a genuinely inclusive new administration...

The female vice-president slot is seen by some as Rebecca Garang's – the widow of Sudan People's Liberation Movement founder John Garang – to lose...

• Mabior Garang de Mabior: Water Resources & Irrigation; critic of government since 2012; inexperienced but highly symbolic as eldest son of late SPLM founder John Garang de Mabior and prominent opposition politician Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior; Bor Dinka; ordered out of cabinet meeting last week because wearing his trademark bow tie...

This fighting was the culmination of months of rising tension symbolised by three SPLM leaders – Riek Machar Teny Pa'gan Amum Okiech and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior (Rebecca Garang) widow of the SPLM founding leader Colonel John Garang de Mabior – who announced they would run for the SPLM chairmanship next year...

This fighting was the culmination of months of rising tension symbolised by three SPLM leaders – Riek Machar Teny Pa'gan Amum Okiech and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior (Rebecca Garang) widow of the SPLM founding leader Colonel John Garang de Mabior – who announced they would run for the SPLM chairmanship next year...

Prominent at the press conference are Pa'gan Amum Okiech (whom Salva had dismissed as SPLM Secretary General) Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon Deng Alor Kuol Alfred Ladu Gore (an Equatorian SPLM founder) and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior widow of the SPLM founding Chairman Colonel John Garang de Mabior...

Rebecca Garang widow of the late SPLM leader John Garang de Mabior has also been detained showing the depth of the schism...

They include National Legislative Assembly Speaker James Wani Igga a Bari from Equatoria with a sound wartime military reputation; Lieutenant General James Hoth Mai the popular Nuer Chief of General Staff; and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior (aka Rebecca Garang) former Presidential Advisor on Gender and widow of Colonel John Garang de Mabior...

Salva has effectively demoted two key officials - Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior widow of Colonel John Garang de Mabior (AC Vol 46 No 16) - by removing the portfolios under their control although they will both play key roles in the government...