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Scribe Strategies & Advisors has landed a six-month $500K contract from South Sudan to provide strategic communications and media counsel.
The world’s youngest nation stands on the brink of a civil war as its VP Riek Machar has been under house arrest since March, ordered by his political rival president Salva Kiir.
A conflict could send a surge of refugees into neighboring Ethiopia and Sudan. Uganda has sent troops into South Sudan to back Kiir's government.
Scribe founder Joe Szlavik will promote trade and investment opportunities in South Sudan, which gained its independence in 2011.
He also will assist the government as it engages with the State Dept. and Dept. of Homeland Security regarding the repatriation and reintegration of South Sudanese nationals currently subject to deportation from the US, according to his firm’s April 25 agreement with South Sudan’s ambassador to the US, Santino Fardol Dickens.
Scribe also represents the Democratic Republic of the Congo under a one-year $840K contract signed in February.
Ruder Finn, Inc. has signed on to support China’s Huawei Technologies Co. and its US research arm Futurewei’s communications in the US.
Plus Communications handles Polish billionaire Zygmunt Solorz who is battling his three children for control of two family foundations that own Poland's Cyfrowy Polsat satellite TV/telecommunications platform.
Rubin Turnbull & Assocs. has been hired to provide consulting & communications services to the ad hoc board of Petréleos de Venezuela S.A.
Putala Strategies inks a $75K-per-month pact to bolster Romania’s ties with the US in the fields of defense, economic cooperation and energy security.
Somalia, which is not one of president Trump's favorite countries, has hired Arsenal Government and Public Affairs Group to engage with White House officials.
