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after Washington Post Earlier this month, it revealed that Foreign Minister Marco Rubio had issued instructions for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to help A large -scale article for PROPUBLICA was published on Thursday A deeper pigeon in the form of these campaigns at the ground level. According to the cables sent between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the American embassies in four developing countries in Africa-Gambia, Djibouti, Cameroon and Lezoto-diplomats in arranging meetings with executives and foreign organizers and pushing them to the rapid licensing of the Internet via the Internet, as a sign of “friendship” with the United States.
If these countries refuse to move faster, then these diplomats warn against the Ministry of Government efficiency (DOGE) – the musk agency responsible for the huge discounts of jobs and budgets throughout the government – may suddenly target programs and funds allocated to their countries.
Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Sharon Kromer, the American ambassador to Gambia, held a meeting with Lamine Gabi, head of the Ministry of Communications in Gambia, on accelerating organizational approval on Starlink. During the meeting, for each ProPublicaMany major initiatives, such as a “$ 25 million project to improve the electrical system”, have been reported, was under review – officials in Gambian as a veiled threat. Hassan Gallo, Supreme Deputy Jabi, said: “The implicit meaning was that they were connected.”
The pressure campaign escalated in March, after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held meetings with Starlink while Jabbi was in the capital for the World Bank summit, which all ended in Jabbi with Budge’s rejection:
In the following hours, Starlink and the US government campaign intensified in a way that emphasized the degree of coordination between the two parties. Gabi told that she would cancel his scheduled meeting with Ministry of Foreign Affairs because “there is no longer a need.”
The Foreign Ministry meeting never happened. Instead, 4000 miles in the Gambia capital, Cromer will try a more aggressive approach.
On the same day, Cromer has already met the Gambia reward for the Trade Secretary to pressure him to help pave the way to Starlink. Then she was informed of the disappointing meeting held by Starlink in the capital, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. By the end of the day, Cromer sent a message to the head of the nation.
“I am writing to search for your support to allow Starlink to work in Gambia,” I opened the message. Over the course of three pages, the ambassador described her concerns about the Gabi Agency and included the ways that the Gambia can benefit from Starlink. She also said that the company had fulfilled the conditions set by Gabi’s predecessor.
“I respect you with respect to facilitate the necessary approvals to start the Starlink in the Gambia operations.” “I look forward to your positive response.”
The efforts described in the other three countries are similar, although each country has tried to deal with the Starlink-State section in different ways. In Lesoto, for example, Starlink was quickly tracked with a major multinational competitor just as the country was subjected to Trump’s tariff by 50 percent, which “the American embassy boasted about facilitation. In the internal cables, senior diplomats said they need to secure these licenses for musk during the next 18 months in order to secure” the first engine feature “so that Starlink remains in the front of the competition Foreign.
Tell many former American diplomats ProPublica The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was unprecedented and worried about “patronage capitalism”, as Kenneth Ferfax, a former American ambassador to Kazakhstan. “If this is done by another country, we call this corruption completely. “It is corruption.”