A detailed look at Salva Kiir Mayardit Net Worth, Age, Height, Bio, Birthday, Wiki, featuring expert perspectives.
Salva Kiir Mayardit is one of the richest Politician from South Sudan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Salva Kiir Mayardit's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He fought alongside the rebel army during the First Sudanese Civil War.
He was also vice president of Sudan from 2005 until 2011.
Kiir was born in 1951 into a pastoral Dinka family in the village of Akon in the Awan-Chan Dinka community in Gogrial County, in the historical Warrap state, South Sudan , as the eighth of nine children (six boys and three girls) in the family. His father, Kuethpiny Thiik Atem (d. 2007), was a cattle herder who belongs to the Payum clan. Atem had three wives, Awiei Rou Wol, Adut Makuei Piol and Awien Akoon Deng, along with 16 children. Mayaardit’s mother, Awiei Rou Wol Tong was a farmer, who belongs to the Payii clan.
Comments by Kiir in October 2009 that the forthcoming independence referendum was a choice between being “a second class in your own country” or “a free person in your independent state” were expected to further strain political tensions. Reports in January 2010 that Kiir would not contest April elections for Sudanese president, but would focus on re-election as president of Southern Sudan were interpreted to mean that the SPLM priority was independence.
Kiir was re-elected with 93% of the vote in the 2010 South Sudanese election. Although the vote on both the national and sub-national level was criticized by democratic activists and international observers, the overwhelming margin of Kiir’s re-election was noted by some media as being “Step One” in the process of secession. Following his re-election, Omar al-Bashir reappointed Kiir as the First Vice President of Sudan in accordance with the interim constitution.
