Salva Kiir Mayardit

Salva Kiir Mayardit President of Africa's newest state in July was in demand at the 24-31 January African Union summit in Addis Ababa...

As the clashes continue Presidents Omer el Beshir and Salva Kiir Mayardit met in Khartoum together with the South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki head of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on 27 January in the run up to the African Union summit (see Feature)...

Many applaud President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s capacity to pardon and accommodate former enemies which has helped to give Southerners a unity of purpose but some wonder where the line should be drawn...

Salva Kiir may now try to bring more oppositionists into his government Africa Confidential has heard...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit had told the new police to clear the streets of gangs engaging in ‘immoral’ activities...

Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi arrived in Juba on 9 August to meet President Salva Kiir Mayardit and outline the shape of future diplomatic ties...

Nhial came to Defence from his post as Regional Affairs Minister an appointment that he accepted in South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s government in 2005...

Hung visited Khartoum on 21-25 June meeting both Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit...

The meeting was the latest in a series of high-level visits from Chinese officials most recently that of Assistant Foreign Affairs Minister Zhai Jun who called on GOSS President Salva Kiir Mayardit on 22 February...

Southern Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit is a Roman Catholic born in Bahr el Ghazal a southern province bordering the Central African Republic...

After the 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement brought the rebellion to a close Salva Kiir like many soldiers was absorbed into the Sudanese army...

The SPLM made its first official contact in a March 2005 delegation to Beijing led by its then-deputy Chairman Salva Kiir Mayardit who became South Sudan’s leader following the death a few months later of the SPLM’s charismatic Chairman John Garang de Mabior...

Salva Kiir followed up that visit in July 2007 then as President of Southern Sudan and First Vice-President of Sudan...