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Salva Kiir

South Sudan Presidential Affairs Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin. © Riccardo De Luca/Update Images Press/MaxPPP

SOUTH SUDAN Politics 04/05/2021

Barnaba Marial, Kiir's new yes man

The key presidential affairs ministerial portfolio has been given to Barnaba Marial Benjamin, one of President Salva Kiir's staunchest loyalists. He partly owes his plum post to a pair of powerful patrons, who may well call in the favour down the line. [...]

Former presidential affairs minister © Reuters

SOUTH SUDAN Oil & gas 26/04/2021

Kiir's former favourite Nhial to be ousted from Nilepet

Nhial Deng Nhial lost his powerful post of presidential affairs minister in an 11 April cabinet reshuffle. [...]

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir. © STR/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

SOUTH SUDAN Politics 14/04/2021

The fight for Salva Kiir's succession heats up

The recent government reshuffle has cleared the path for South Sudan's chief spy Akol Koor. But president Salva Kiir remains deeply suspicious of the Internal Security Bureau director, barring him from any power over the country's lucrative oil resources. [...]

SOUTH SUDAN Oil & gas 17/03/2021

CNPC and Petronas to be scrutinised by redoubted oil industry auditor Alex Stewart International

The audit group most feared by oil companies operating in Africa is to go through the accounts of the two Asian majors with the aim of spotting the slightest irregularities. [...]

Peace talks for South Sudan in Naivasha on 8 March with Pagan Amum Okiech, Barnaba Marial Benjamin and Paul Malong Awan(from left to right). © Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Twitter

SOUTH SUDAN Politics 11/03/2021

Pagan, Malong and Kiir negotiate on thin ice

Negotiations between South Sudan's government and remaining rebel groups have resumed in Kenya. But all parties are beset by internal tensions that render the outcome of the talks uncertain. [...]

SOUTH SUDAN Politics 09/02/2021

Peace mediators shunted back and forth between Rome and Nairobi Free

Already compromised by divisions within the SSOMA in December, peace talks between the South Sudanese government and the last fighters warring with Juba have now been split between Rome and Nairobi. [...]

SOUTH SUDAN Politics 04/02/2021

Kiir fans flames of ethnic rivalry near Upper Nile oilfields

President Salva Kiir has appointed a Padang Dinka as deputy governor for Upper Nile state, home to over 70% of the country's crude oil output. Though intended as a conciliatry gesture towards this community, it could well spark fresh clashes with Shilluks and Nuers. [...]

SUDAN SOUTH SUDAN Politics 11/12/2020

Hemeti and Kiir's quid pro quo on dealing with their enemies

South Sudan's president and the number two in Sudan's Sovereign Council are both troubled by a warlord who has taken refuge in the other's country. The two leaders have been working on a quid pro quo solution. [...]

Upper Nile - Where the two Sudans and Ethiopia meet. © Africa Intelligence/Indigo Publications 2020

SOUTH SUDAN Politics 09/12/2020

Battle over appointment of Johnson Olony as Upper Nile governor jeopardizes peace agreement

Vice president Riek Machar is insisting on having army commander Johnson Olony as head of the oil-producing state of Upper Nile. South Sudanese president Salva Kiir has refused to approve the appointment, however, even though, in so doing, he risks endangering the country's fragile transition process. [...]

The South Sudanese president Salva Kiir. © Angelo Carconi/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

SOUTH SUDAN Diplomacy 08/12/2020

Kiir hopes Biden win means end of sanctions

While Paris, Oslo and Washington work out what their economic support to Juba could look like, Salva Kiir is preparing for the shift in power at the White House. [...]

SOUTH SUDAN Politics 04/12/2020

Kiir bans one of his vice presidents from leaving the country

South Sudan third vice president Taban Deng Gai, who officially wanted to travel to Europe for medical reasons, has been banned from travelling outside the country by head of state Salva Kiir, according to our information. [...]

Presidents Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) and Salva Kiir (South Sudan). © STR/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

UGANDA SOUTH SUDAN Diplomacy 13/11/2020

Dialogue of deaf between Kiir and Museveni

Presidents Yoweri Museveni and Salva Kiir are struggling to resolve the recurrent tensions between Kampala and Juba that are reflected in the constant skirmishes on the border between the Uganda People's Defence Forces and the South Sudan People's Defence Forces. [...]

South Sudanese Presidential Minister Nhial Deng Nhial. © Zhai Jianlan/Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

SOUTH SUDAN Politics Oil & gas 26/10/2020

Backed by Kiir, Nhial continues purge of intelligence agents in oil and finance

President Salva Kiir is purging the South Sudanese economy of the regime's powerful but unwelcome securocrats. [...]

SOUTH SUDAN Politics 22/10/2020

Salva Kiir's spy chiefs "Janafil" and Akol Koor battle it out

Rin Tueny Mabor is mobilising his networks to counter the influence of his rival Akol Koor, the head of internal intelligence. [...]

QATAR SOUTH SUDAN Diplomacy Banks 16/10/2020

Qatar National Bank sounds death knell on its honeymoon with Kiir regime

In 2011, the state-owned Qatari National Bank (QNB) became the first foreign bank to open in the newly independent South Sudan. Now it is taking President Salva Kiir's government to court. [...]

The GERD dam (Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam), a source of tension between Addis Ababa and Cairo. © Yirga Mengistu/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom/MaxPPP

SOUTH SUDAN HORN OF AFRICA Diplomacy 09/10/2020

GERD: Egypt and Ethiopia kowtow to South Sudan

Cairo and Addis Ababa, engaged in a bitter diplomatic squabble over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), are each seeking to win over as many countries as possible in the Nile Basin. South Sudan is currently the centre of their attention. [...]

SOUTH SUDAN SUDAN Politics Diplomacy 09/10/2020

How the Emirates sidelined Qatar from the Sudanese peace process

The peace accord between Darfur rebels and Khartoum, though sponsored by Qatar, was signed not in Doha but in Juba. The Emiratis, who are actively rebuilding their networks in Sudan, were behind this latest diplomatic setback for Qatar. [...]

The President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir. © Angelo Carconi/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

Spotlight SOUTH SUDAN Oil & gas Business 01/10/2020

Kiir makes pro-Sahara Energy execs pay the price

The Nigerian trading company is far from being unanimously popular in Juba where it has powerful allies but also many critics. [...]

EAST AFRICA SOUTH SUDAN Politics 15/09/2020

Rival factions ready to pounce if Salva Kiir stumbles Free

Less than a month after he mediated peace talks between Khartoum and rebel groups in Juba, rival South Sudanese clans have already relegated Salva Kiir to the past and are jostling for the pole position if he is unable to hold on to the presidency. [...]

SOUTH SUDAN Oil & gas 11/09/2020

Kiir ditches spy chiefs for loyalists at Nilepet

The South Sudan head of state is suffering from increasingly acute paranoia. He has replaced most of the national oil company's board members with loyalists of his own in a move destined to ensure he has complete control of the oil sector, which is the state's main source of revenue following the recent civil war. [...]

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