 Barry Bennett |
Zimbabwe has hired Avenue Global Strategies to a $1.1M one-year contract, which went into effect April 5, to foster better relations with the US.
Barry Bennett, who was a senior advisor to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, helms and co-founded AGS. He joined Team Trump after working as presidential campaign manager for Ben Carson, now Dept. of Housing and Urban Development Secretary, and organizer of the 2012 Super PAC of Rick Perry, now Energy Secretary.
Zimbabwe in March inked Brian Ballard's Ballard Partners to a two-year contract valued at $1M. Ballard led Florida’s Trump Victory fundraising group.
The firm's job is to encourage a re-examination of Zimbabwe from the State Dept. with a view of "establishing the best possible bilateral relationship with the US and facilitating the restoration of Zimbabwe’s membership in the good standing with the community of nations.”
The Trump administration on March 6 extended economic sanctions imposed in 2003 against 100 officials and institutions of the African nation for another year. That punishment stems from human rights abuses commiited during the reign of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's longtime ruler.
Current president Emmerson Mnangagwa has been working to restore his country’s diplomatic standing.
His government announced April 14 a plan to partially compensate white farmers for land seized from them by Mugabe and redistributed to blacks.
The Voice of America reported April 16 that Mnangagwa’s government hopes that Zimbabwe’s “cold relations with the west with thaw and that the ailing economy will improve.”
Moran Global Strategies has signed a six-month $240K agreement with Uganda to enhance its political and economic ties with the US.
APCO has signed on to provide strategic communications, media relations and stakeholder engagement to promote the culture of Uzbekistan.
Corcoran Partners has agreed to perform a “turnkey political communication, public relations, and strategic advisory campaign” on behalf of Abdullah Al-Lafi, Deputy President of the Libyan Presidential Council.
BGR Government Affairs is providing lobbying and PR services in the US for the Korea Nuclear Association for International Cooperation.
Florida’s Sniper Advertising Services has an oral agreement to provide digital and social media services for Israel.
