General Khamis Abdel-Latif Chawul Lom, a former security official, has called on President Salva Kiir Mayardit to appoint the ...

The position previously occupied by Dr. Benjamin Bol Mel, now elevated to the Vice President, has existed for quite some time ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has become the latest African leader to appoint a family member to a senior government position, prompting accusations of nepotism.

Presidential Guard troops stormed the compound of former Vice President Riek Machar Tuesday after President Salva Kiir (desk: two I's is correct) Mayardit accused him of masterminding an attempted ...

President Salva Kiir said he was reappointing his rival as first vice president, an important condition of a deal to end more than two years of war.

For fans of US cowboy films, Southern Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit – with his trademark beard and wide-brimmed hat – sometimes seems cast in the role of heroic but solitary gun-slinger walking ...

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit has dissolved the entire cabinet and appointed four Vice Presidents ahead of the full formation of the Government on 22 Feb. President Kiir also ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit (L) gestures as he leaves after attending peace talks with the South Sudanese rebels in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, March 6, 2015. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri ...

Salva Kiir Mayardit, the bearded former army general who is poised to become the President of the world’s youngest republic is no stranger to Kenyans. He has been to Kenya on countless occasions ...

Last month, Salva Kiir borrowed $600 million dollars from China. He told the Chinese government that he wanted the money to pay a six-month salary of all South Sudanese civil servants.

Mr. Salva Kiir, longtime second-in-command in the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, was flanked by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Second Vice President Ali Osman Taha.

Salva Kiir, South Sudan’s President, Signs Peace Deal With Rebels The accord, sealed after pressure from President Obama and regional leaders, aims at ending nearly two years of conflict marked ...