a écrit le 15 août 2018 à 18h32 Please read and learn, why now they are admitting certains things..
Cameroon, an African country where the government has been accused of torture and murder, has inked a seven-figure contract with Mercury Public Affairs.The Washington, D.C.-based firm will be paid $100,000 a month for “strategic consulting and management services, government relations/lobbying, and media issues management†until the end of July 2019, according to a disclosure report required under the Foreign Agent Registration Act.The firm was hired about a month after a House subcommittee held a hearing to examine human rights abuses and what the panel’s chairman, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), described as “an emerging crisis.â€The contract is vague about exactly what the firm will be doing. It is also unclear who at Mercury is working on the account; the firm has until Friday to submit those forms. Foreign lobbying disclosures related to new clients are due within 10 days of a contract being signed.The U.S. has roughly 100 troops in Cameroon to train and advise its military on combating Boko Haram and other extremist groups.
After Amnesty International posted a video of security forces killing a woman and two children, the State Department issued a statement July 16 calling on Cameroon’s government “to investigate thoroughly and transparently the events depicted in the video, make its findings public, and if Cameroonian military personnel were involved in this atrocity, hold them accountable.â€
The Senate spending bill that covers the State Department in fiscal 2019 ( S. 3108) would set aside $5 million in aid for Cameroon.
Senators tied that cash to a demand that Cameroon investigate and punish government personnel “who are credibly alleged to have committed, ordered, or covered up gross violations of human rights, including against Cameroonian citizens and refugees in the Far North and Anglophone regions of Cameroon,†according to the committee report.
The bill would require Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet with Congress a month after enactment of the appropriation to update lawmakers on the investigations before deciding whether aid should be given. The House, however, has no Cameroon-specific language in its companion legislation (H.R. 6385) and instead lumps foreign aid to a group of countries in the region.
“Cameroon is now on everybody’s radar,†said Akwei. “Alarm bells are ringing.â€
In addition to Mercury, Cameroon had Squire
Cameroon, an African country where the government has been accused of torture and murder, has inked a seven-figure contract with Mercury Public Affairs.The Washington, D.C.-based firm will be paid $100,000 a month for “strategic consulting and management services, government relations/lobbying, and media issues management†until the end of July 2019, according to a disclosure report required under the Foreign Agent Registration Act.The firm was hired about a month after a House subcommittee held a hearing to examine human rights abuses and what the panel’s chairman, Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), described as “an emerging crisis.â€The contract is vague about exactly what the firm will be doing. It is also unclear who at Mercury is working on the account; the firm has until Friday to submit those forms. Foreign lobbying disclosures related to new clients are due within 10 days of a contract being signed.The U.S. has roughly 100 troops in Cameroon to train and advise its military on combating Boko Haram and other extremist groups.
After Amnesty International posted a video of security forces killing a woman and two children, the State Department issued a statement July 16 calling on Cameroon’s government “to investigate thoroughly and transparently the events depicted in the video, make its findings public, and if Cameroonian military personnel were involved in this atrocity, hold them accountable.â€
The Senate spending bill that covers the State Department in fiscal 2019 ( S. 3108) would set aside $5 million in aid for Cameroon.
Senators tied that cash to a demand that Cameroon investigate and punish government personnel “who are credibly alleged to have committed, ordered, or covered up gross violations of human rights, including against Cameroonian citizens and refugees in the Far North and Anglophone regions of Cameroon,†according to the committee report.
The bill would require Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet with Congress a month after enactment of the appropriation to update lawmakers on the investigations before deciding whether aid should be given. The House, however, has no Cameroon-specific language in its companion legislation (H.R. 6385) and instead lumps foreign aid to a group of countries in the region.
“Cameroon is now on everybody’s radar,†said Akwei. “Alarm bells are ringing.â€
In addition to Mercury, Cameroon had Squire
