Who is Salva Kiir? Born in 1951, the 73-year-old devout Roman Catholic was the son of a cattle herder and the eighth of nine children. At 17, he joined the Anyanya, one of the rebel groups that ...

The rivalry between President Salva Kiir and his first vice president, Riek Machar, ratcheted up from tense to combustible last week when Kiir’s defense minister led a convoy of troops to Machar ...

Riek Machar, whose political tensions with President Salva Kiir recently threatened to tip South Sudan back into civil war, remained in house arrest as Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In ...

South Sudan’s civil war ended in 2018 through a peace agreement between President Salva Kiir’s South Sudan People’s Liberation Movement In Government (SPLM-IG) and Riek Machar’s Sudan People’s ...

The statement follows President Salva Kiir’s government’s efforts to position South Sudan as a neutral country committed to peaceful relations with its neighbours. South Sudan, a landlocked ...

In this image made from video, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, left, shakes hands with his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir in Juba, South Sudan, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo) Advertisement ...

President Salva Kiir has served in an uneasy power-sharing government with Machar since a 2018 peace deal ended a civil war between fighters loyal to the two men which killed hundreds of thousands ...

Riek Machar (L) and Salva Kiir (R) - seen here together in 2020 - had been allies within the SPLM before falling out Rising tensions in the east African country of South Sudan, culminating in the ...