{"id":17652,"date":"2025-09-01T13:06:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=17652"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:06:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:06:43","slug":"kenya-hires-former-trump-official-to-lobby-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/17652\/kenya-hires-former-trump-official-to-lobby-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya hires former Trump official to lobby US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya has hired a former Trump administration official to lobby Washington, according to the Daily Nation newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Nairobi signed\u00a0<a class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" href=\"https:\/\/nation.africa\/kenya\/diaspora\/kenya-hires-donald-trump-associate-carlos-trujillo-to-lobby-washington--5168698#story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an agreement with Continental Strategy<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the lobbying firm founded by Carlos Trujillo, a former US ambassador to the Organization of American States, and a close ally of US President Donald Trump \u2014 for a monthly retainer of $175,000 plus expenses, the Nairobi-based outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" href=\"https:\/\/africa.businessinsider.com\/local\/markets\/kenya-hires-donald-trump-associate-for-dollar175000-a-month-us-lobbying-deal\/43kpz02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenya is moving decisively to consolidate its influence in Washington,<\/a>\u201d noted Business Insider Africa, at a time when several countries are deepening ties with China and Russia and others are hesitant to pick a side. In response to domestic criticism over the deal\u2019s price tag, Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi defended the move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartnerships with lobbying firms are a standard and legitimate practice by governments worldwide,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are undertaken to advance foreign policy, trade, investment and security interests in Washington, DC, where\u00a0<a class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/national\/article\/2001528088\/mudavadi-defends-kenyas-us-lobbying-deal-amid-criticism?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">competition for visibility is intense and highly structured.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya has hired a former Trump administration official to lobby Washington, according to the Daily Nation newspaper. Nairobi signed\u00a0an agreement with Continental Strategy\u00a0\u2014 the lobbying firm founded by Carlos Trujillo, a former US ambassador to the Organization of American States, and a close ally of US President Donald Trump \u2014 for a monthly retainer of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":11,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Semafor + Agencies","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2362,33],"tags":[1643,111],"class_list":["post-17652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-africa","category-featured","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-kenya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}