South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir was Thursday rushed to hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia after he fell sick.
The BBC reports that according to an official, Kiir suffered from nose bleeds but further details of his condition were not immediately available.
His hospitalisation delayed an IGAD summit where regional leaders were called to thoroughly and conclusively deal with the issue of the South Sudan conflict.
The IGAD meeting is being held in the sidelines of a two-day African Union ( AU) summit which is expected to start on Friday.
Kiir held talks in Addis Ababa on Wednesday with rebel leader Riek Machar to end the civil war which has killed thousands of people since December 2013.
Source-standardmedia.co.ke
About Salva Kiir Mayardit
Salva Kiir Mayardit (born 13 September 1951), also known as Salva Kiir, is a South Sudanese politician who has been the President of South Sudan since its independence on 9 July 2011.
Prior to independence, he was the President of the Government of Southern Sudan, as well as First Vice President of Sudan, from 2005 to 2011.
He was named Commander-in-Chief of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) in 2005, following the death of John Garang.[4]
Kiir was born to the Dinka ethnic group and joined Anyanya rebels fighting for Southern independence during the First Sudanese Civil War in the late 1960s.
Following the outbreak of the Second Sudanese Civil War in 1983, Kiir joined the new Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) rebel group led by John Garang as a member of its armed wing, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), eventually becoming the head of the SPLA.
Following the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the South gained autonomy under the leadership of Garang in July 2005.
Following Garang’s death at the end of the month, Kiir became the new President of the Southern Autonomous region, as well as First Vice President of the central government. Kiir won re-election as President following the 2010 South Sudanese general election.
The following year, South Sudan gained independence after the 2011 South Sudanese independence referendum with Kiir as its inaugural President.
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