Somalia: Govt Seeks Help From U.S. Firm to Further Relations

19 November 2017

The Somalia government has retained a former US senator to lobby the Trump administration officials and members of Congress.

Under the terms of a recently signed contract, Somalia is agreeing to pay $120,000 (Sh12m) to a lobbying firm headed by Alfonse Marcello D'Amato, a Republican who represented New York state in the US Senate from 1981 to 1999.

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