BENJAMIN BOL MEL · LEAD
South Sudan: Adut Salva Kiir’s Shadow Treasury Exposed
She holds no ministry, commands no army, and answers to no constitution. Yet Adut Salva Kiir Mayardit, the president’s eldest daughter, has quietly constructed the most consequential power centre in South Sudan: a private revenue empire that drains the national treasury, a political machine that disposes of inconvenient officials, and a succession project that treats one of Africa’s most traumatised countries as a family inheritance. The abduction of a whistleblower from Nairobi’s streets is the latest and most brazen symptom of a regime that has decided secrecy is worth any price. This investigation names the people behind it, traces the money, and asks the questions that South Sudan’s silenced press cannot.