Tag: Salva Kiir

Salva Kiir and Riek Machar loom large over South Sudan’s recent history. And they will keep holding the future of the young nation in...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Vice-President Riek Machar shook hands this week on yet another agreement to revive the chronically faltering peace...

Internet services in South Sudan were disrupted on Monday and security forces patrolled the streets after activists called for protests against President Salva Kiir's...

The formation of South Sudan’s new unity government on 22 February is a major milestone in recent efforts to restore peace in that country....

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir offered to mediate a political transition in Sudan after the fall of autocratic president Omar al-Bashir, Kiir’s office said. The...

Deputy President David Mabuza has held a consultative meeting with President Salva Kiir Mayardit of the Republic of South Sudan at the Johnny Makhathini...

Cautious optimism surrounds efforts to end the brutal five-year civil war in South Sudan. Recent progress in the peace process has led...

President Salva Kiir granted a general amnesty to rebels in South Sudan's civil war, including his former deputy Riek Machar, as a...

South Sudan's president signed a peace agreement with rebels on Wednesday including a ceasefire to start in 72 hours, Sudan's foreign minister...

Nearly two years since their last meeting, rival leaders President Salva Kiir and Dr Riek Machar met face to face on 20...

The United States is set to announce an arms embargo against South Sudan, three sources familiar with the decision told Reuters, stepping...

The South Sudanese government declared former army chief of staff General Paul Malong a rebel and accused him of being behind a...

The United States has lost trust in South Sudan's government for fuelling civil war and must bring peace or risk losing support...

The United States is considering how to pressure South Sudan's President Salva Kiir into peace, but withdrawing aid may not work US...

South Sudan's hellish war will get worse if its neighbours let President Salva Kiir hold an election before he accepts peacekeepers, a...

African countries should do more to pressure South Sudan's political leaders, who seem incapable of resolving the country's four-year civil war, a...

A showdown between South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and his ousted army chief intensified on Friday after the general failed to return...

A disaffected South Sudanese army general who quit his position last month announced he has formed a new anti-government rebel group, underscoring...

South Sudan's government urged Sudan and regional states on Tuesday not to let opposition leader Riek Machar launch a new rebellion, after...

UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said on Wednesday South Sudan's government had not taken any action on a pledge it made 10...

The United States does not believe South Sudan's former Deputy President Riek Machar should return to his former position in its government,...

Fighting flared in South Sudan late on Saturday south-west of the capital between forces loyal to the president and those backing the...

At least nine people were killed in South Sudan over the weekend in renewed clashes between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir...

South Sudan President Salva Kiir replaced his vice president and rival Riek Machar on Monday, a move that could potentially undermine last...

A rift appeared in one of South Sudan's two main rival groups on Friday, raising the prospect of further turmoil after months...

South Sudan's president wants his vice president to return to the capital to try to salvage a peace agreement jeopardised by fighting...

South Sudan's president and vice president ordered their loyalists to cease hostilities on Monday after days of fighting threatened to plunge the...

Heavy fighting involving tanks and helicopters raged in South Sudan on Monday between troops loyal to the president and those backing the...

Heavy fighting erupted again in South Sudan's capital on Monday a day after the U.N. Security Council told rivals President Salva Kiir...

South African president Jacob Zuma at the weekend expressed "great concern" about the re-escalation of violence in South Sudan, which according to...

Washington accused both sides in South Sudan's two-year conflict of blocking peace efforts and protested, rebels said, by pulling funding for a...

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged the leaders of war-torn South Sudan to form a transitional government quickly and roll out...

South Sudan's government said on Thursday that a threat of U.S. sanctions if the country fails to deliver on a peace deal...

Troops allied with South Sudan's Riek Machar, the former rebel leader and rival to President Salva Kiir, will deploy to the capital...

South Sudan's warring government and opposition are killing, abducting and displacing civilians and destroying property despite conciliatory rhetoric by both sides, the...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has re-appointed his rival Riek Machar as vice president, a decree said on Thursday, the culmination of...

Russia said on Friday it was opposed to placing a United Nations arms embargo on South Sudan or blacklisting President Salva Kiir...

Yet another African transitional government of national unity is about to be launched, this time in South Sudan, on 22 January, to...

Pope Francis held a private meeting with South Sudan's President Salva Kiir on Friday, pushing for peace in the world's newest nation...

Uganda said it would start withdrawing troops from South Sudan on Monday, in compliance with a peace deal warring sides signed, a...

South Sudan's president and a rebel leader accused each other on Tuesday of violating a ceasefire brokered to end a 21-month conflict...

South Sudan's president urged his people on Tuesday to "join hands" in implementing a peace deal to end more than 20 months...

South Sudan's rebels have ratified a peace deal signed by President Salva Kiir and their leader Riek Machar last month, in another...

South Sudan's parliament unanimously voted on Thursday to adopt a peace deal agreed last month by President Salva Kiir and rebel leader...

South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar accused government forces on Monday of repeatedly breaking a ceasefire and putting at risk a peace...

South Sudanese rebels and the army have accused each other for the second time this week of attacks, this time barely a...

South Sudan's president signed a peace deal on Wednesday to end a 20-month conflict with rebels, but he told regional African leaders...

South Sudan's president is expected to sign a peace deal on Wednesday to end a 20-month-old conflict but will list his reservations...

South Sudan President Salva Kiir declined to sign a peace deal proposed by regional leaders on Monday, saying he required more time,...

East African leaders gathered in the Ethiopian capital on Saturday in a last-ditch effort to convince South Sudan's warring sides to sign...