According to individuals with knowledge

According to individuals with knowledge of the negotiations, that diplomatic intervention was spearheaded by the US Ambassador to Liberia, Mark Toner, with the support of Senior Africa Bureau Official Troy Fitrell and Senior Africa Advisor to the President of the United States, Massad Boulos. Those unattributable remarks demand critical scrutiny from the US Congress. If true, then US commercial advocacy not only favored one company (i.e., Ivanhoe Atlantic) over at least one other (i.e., AML). It favored a company whose chairman of the board is J. Peter Pham, a former US Special Envoy who is reportedly a candidate for Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. It is therefore ufabet