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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.
Yorktown Solutions has signed on to provide public affairs counsel to the Kyiv City Organization of Employers of the Oil & Gas Industry, which is the largest association representing Ukraine’s energy sector.
Spectrum Group has a $100K per month pact with Istanbul’s DESAN Shipyard to explore business opportunities with the US Navy, merchant marine fleet and American shipbuilding facilities.
Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy has hired Mercury Public Affairs for government relations advice and services, including outreach to government officials and potentially US media outlets.
Mercury has signed Institut Macaya, a Haitian think tank organized by business leaders to end the cycle of crises that have long ravaged the Caribbean country.
Connector Inc. has signed on as primary government affairs counsel to Iraqi politico Hussein AlAnkoshei.
