Salva Kiir Mayardit

The bigger failure on the part of the AU and the USA is the failure to secure an end to the civil war in South Sudan one recognised in Obama's caustic criticism of the indifference of President Salva Kiir Mayardit and sacked Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon to the suffering of their own people...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit has finally found a sympathetic regional forum to offset his growing isolation as international unease mounts over South Sudan's continuing bloodletting...

Leaders gave Salva Kiir vocal support in his fight against Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and resolved that the Troika (Norway United Kingdom United States) should play no mediation role...

The national army the Sudan People's Liberation Army still loyal to President Salva Kiir Mayardit appears to have launched another offensive in the Lou Nuer areas of north-east Jonglei...

Shortage of funds may have more impact than mediation or sanctions on both President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government and the rebels led by his former Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (AC Vol 56 No 5 A test of everyone's will)...

It is these leading officials including President Salva Kiir Mayardiit and sacked Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon that the AU and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are trying to corral into a power-sharing deal to end the fighting that has cost over 50 000 lives in the past 15 months...

It is these leading officials including President Salva Kiir Mayardiit and sacked Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon that the AU and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are trying to corral into a power-sharing deal to end the fighting that has cost over 50 000 lives in the past 15 months...

It was once allied to Yau Yau and President Salva Kiir Mayardit accused Sudan of backing it...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit and the SPLM-IO leader Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon met face-to-face for hours into the night in Addis Ababa on 3 March but failed to agree on key points...

Extended mandateSalva Kiir has extended the presidential and parliamentary mandates due to expire on 9 July by two years and cancelled the elections...

An innovative alliance between United States' security expertise and Chinese capital – in the form of a Hong Kong-registered company called Frontier Services Group (FSG) – is giving critical support including flying reconnaissance missions to President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government...

Over the last two years though relations between Washington and Juba have sharply deteriorated; the US has ended its military training programme with Salva Kiir's government but Washington has rejected growing pressure from human rights groups to impose sanctions on both sides in the current conflict...

A tentative step forward has been made with a political reunification deal signed in Arusha on 21 January between President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his sacked Deputy Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon whose forces have been at war since December 2013 and Deng Alor Kuol for the former detainees (AC Vol 55 No 9 The third eleven enters the contest)...

Unsurprisingly allies of Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon whose episodic alliances with the Khartoum regime have dented his credibility in South Sudan have dismissed the documents as a fake produced by President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government...