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...
Vol 65 No 9 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
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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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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Vol 64 No 24 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
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...
Vol 64 No 24 |
- EAST AFRICA
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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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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On 6 November South Sudan's President Salva Kiir held talks on a peace initiative in Sudan with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el Sisi in Cairo...
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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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Instead Khartoum wants South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit to lead the talks...
Vol 64 No 12 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been winning plaudits for his so far unsuccessful attempts to mediate between the warring parties in the north while dodging criticism of the delays and missteps in the implementation of his own country's peace deal...
Blessed and confused are the peacemakers The Peace and Security division of the regional body the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) appointed President Salva Kiir Mayardit as team leader of its Mediation Support Unit dealing with Sudan at the end of April...