Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough broke off its engagement with the Sudanese Commission for Social Safety, Solidarity, and Poverty Reduction on 7 March, according to a newly disclosed lobbying filing, leaving $360,000 on the table. The firm had signed a 12-month contract at the end of January to try to repair bilateral ties and “facilitate foreign aid and investments in Sudan” after the US suspended $700m in annual aid following Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s 25 October coup.
“I wasn’t comfortable being in any way supporting the government, because it just did not seem as though they were fully committed to a civilian controlled government,” says Nelson Mullins senior policy adviser Jim Moran, a former Democratic member of Congress from Virginia who signed the contract with Sudanese Commissioner General Ezzadean Elsafi.
Just last month, Moran told The Africa Report that he had agreed
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