Canadian newspaper: Hamidati pays millions to polish his image abroad

A Canadian public relations firm has signed a contract with the military regime in Sudan worth millions of dollars to improve its image abroad and inside, a report published in the Canadian Globe and Mail newspaper revealed.

In a report, journalist Jeffrey York said US documents revealed that Dickens & Madsen, based in Montreal, had signed a $ 6 million contract with the system to help him obtain foreign funding and diplomatic recognition.

The newspaper pointed out that this contract came at a time when the finger pointing to the Transitional Military Council in Sudan responsible for the massacre, which killed dozens of protesters in Khartoum this month.

According to the report, the contract stipulates that the company will try to make efforts to ensure that the Sudanese military junta receives positive media coverage from international and Sudanese media.

Equipment and meetings
The report notes that the military junta paid the company to provide equipment to its security forces, as well as to search for oil investors, arrange a meeting with US President Donald Trump and improve relations with Russia and Saudi Arabia.

The newspaper said retired Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben Menashe was running the company and that his company had put paid pressure on Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe and military commander Khalifa Hafater in Libya.

The report shows that the contract was signed between the company's director Ben Menashe and Mohamed Hamdan Daklou Hamidti, deputy head of the Sudanese Transitional Military Council, commander of the rapid support forces.

US documents reveal that the contract was signed with the company in Montreal on the seventh of last month under the Foreign Customer Registration Act, which requires any company wishing to act as a lobbying group on behalf of foreign entities to disclose such relations.

Recognition and supervision
The author says the contract aims to support the military regime in Sudan to gain international recognition as a transitional leadership of legitimacy of the country and the manufacture of a supervisory role of the Council.

The report says the company will try to arrange meetings for council officials with President Trump and with senior officials and politicians in Russia.

The Canadian company will also try to provide funding to the military junta from the United States, Russia and other countries.

The report suggests that the Canadian company proposes an alliance between the regime in Sudan and the Libyan military commander Khalifa Hafter, so that the latter provides military support to the Council in exchange for funding from Sudan.

The newspaper reports that the Canadian company faces obstacles in the United States, as the Trump administration of the Sudanese Military Council claimed responsibility for violence against the protesters.