Perhaps to manage those concerns Damiba's junta has hired veteran Israeli lobbyist and arms dealer Ari Ben-Menashe on a $500 000 per year retainer to influence policy-makers in the United States and to secure arms for the junta which has been threatened with wider economic and military sanctions (AC Vol 60 No 20 Out of contract and Vol 60 No 16 Lobbyist of last resort)...
On the face of it it is just another lucrative lobbying deal with Israeli arms dealer turned lobbyist Ari Ben Menashe bagging another US$1 million contract to add Tunisian media mogul and presidential hopeful Nabil Karoui to a client list that includes Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemeti deputy leader of Sudan's Transitional Military Council (AC Vol 60 No 16 Lobbyist of last resort)...
Under the terms of Hemeti's public relations contract with US lobbyist Ari Ben Menashe (see Pointer Lobbyist of last resort) he is said to have despatched a further 1 000 fighters to support General Khalifa Haftar's rebel forces based in eastern Libya...
The widely publicised US$6 million lobbying contract between controversial Washington lobbyist Ari Ben-Menashe with Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemeti deputy leader of Sudan's Transitional Military Council (TMC) to supply the Sudanese military secure meetings with international leaders and 'correct unfavourable international media coverage' of the junta has prompted outrage in Khartoum civil society...
In July 2018 he hired veteran Israeli intelligence operative and former Robert Mugabe lobbyist Ari Ben-Menashe on a $2m retainer to lobby the Fund at its United States headquarters (AC Vol 59 No 16 This bum for hire)...
The lucky lobbyist this time is Ari Ben-Menashe a veteran of the African political lobbying game...
a Montreal-based consultancy run by Ari Ben-Menashe (AC Vol 49 No 10 Sick man sick opposition)...
At the centre of the accusations is a former Israeli ex-intelligence operative and 'international consultant' Ari Ben-Menashe...
Tsvangirai's counsel George Bizos of South Africa had demolished the credibility of the state's Israeli witness (and paid Harare government lobbyist) Ari Ben Menashe...
