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South Sudan

Salva Kiir Mayardit

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


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Abyei arbitrage

After Khartoum flattened Abyei town in May 2008 SPLM leader Salva Kiir Mayardit also accused the regime of which he is First Vice-President of 'crimes against humanity' (AC Vol 49 No 12)...


The coup-making government lives on

Yassin el Haj Abdin; another Reading PhD (Geophysics); veteran Islamist who resurfaced (having worked in the presidency) last week in London to defend the census (AC Vol 50 No 11) as head of the census and Central Bureau of Statistics; after a row with Vice-President Salva Kiir he had condemned the UN who 'stuck their noses' into things that didn't concern them; from Marinjan Gezira...


Who's counting?

When Southern Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit said this month that he was 'unhappy and unsatisfied' with the census results he was pointing to the next major clash between his Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the National Congress Party (aka National Islamic Front)...


Air strikes and silence

He told Southern President Salva Kiir Mayardit that Omer el Beshir should cooperate with the ICC...


New politics, new threats

Like many Northerners General Salva Kiir had already objected to the conduct of the 2008 census...


No longer at ease

The intense two-day visit to the US capital by General Salva Kiir Mayardit may have been arranged by Bush's outgoing government but it is seen as a sign of things to come...


Bargaining with warlords

Southern Sudan is still run like a feudal state with President Salva Kiir Mayardit appointing people from among competing factions and ethnic interest groups in a complex balancing act...


Courts and killings

Destabilising and undermining The SPLM will be more assertive in the North and abroad as signalled by national Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s meeting with outgoing US President George W...


The oil revenue row

Yet it is a sign of GOSS's weakness nationally that although its President Salva Kiir Mayardit is also national First Vice-President he cannot change this...


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