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Rwanda has hired Yorktown Solutions to provide strategic advisory relations on matters that impact its ties with the United States.
The one-year contract, which went into effect on March 21, carries a $80K monthly retainer.
Yorktown is to handle issues management, government affairs and outreach to federal officials, private sector groups, and the media.
It will arrange conferences and speaking engagements for members of the Rwanda Development Board with the goal of attracting investments to the African nation.
Rwanda has backed the M23 rebel group that is waging a civil war in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Trump White House is eager to cut a deal with the DRC to gain access to its supply of rare earth minerals.
Yorktown president Daniel Vajdich is working the Rwanda effort. He was a security advisor to the presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz, Scott Walker and Mitt Romney.
Former Georgia Republican Congressman Tom Graves is representing the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, positioning the country as a reliable partner with the US.
Bridges Partners is running an influencer campaign on behalf of Israel to promote the cultural interchange between it and the US.
San Diego’s Show Faith by Works is spreading pro-Israel messaging to Christian groups in the western US on behalf of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
KNP Communications has lined up a contract to provide media training to members of Canada’s US embassy.
The firm of Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale has a four-month $6M agreement for strategic communications and media services in support of Havas Media’s engagement by Israel to develop a nationwide campaign in the US to combat antisemitism.
