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Washington lobbyists win African clients as Trump consolidates power

Scrambling for influence, governments are hiring start-ups and established Republican lobbyists

Amid uncertainty about aid and security policies, a flurry of lobbying contracts with foreign governments, many of them African, have been filed under the US State Department’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) since Donald J Trump won the 5 November presidential election. Trump’s first presidential victory in 2016 shook up the US lobbying industry, prompting the emergence of new spin firms run by Trump campaign aides.

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