Jim Risch the Republican chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has lambasted the Museveni regime's repression of opposition forces during the January general elections which he dismissed as a ‘hollow exercise' (Dispatches 20/6/26 Museveni hires US lobbyist for tariff relief and AGOA return as alarms ring over Muhoozi succession)...

Though Jim Risch the Republican chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee lambasted the January elections which saw Museveni obtain a seventh term and opposition leader Bobi Wine flee state attempts to arrest him Washington said little on the repression (AC 23/3/26 Bobi Wine takes to Capitol Hill to denounce election fraud)...

Working with Wine in the US are veteran lawyer Robert Amsterdam and Washington lobbyist Jeffrey Smith who seem to have struck a chord with Jim Risch the Republican chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee who described the January elections as a ‘hollow exercise' and proposed reviewing the US security relations with Uganda mulling the possibility of sanctions on senior figures in the government in Kampala...

Working with Wine in the US are veteran lawyer Robert Amsterdam and Washington lobbyist Jeffrey Smith who seem to have a struck a chord with Jim Risch the Republican chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee who described the January elections as a ‘hollow exercise' and proposed reviewing the US security relations with Uganda mulling the possibility of sanctions on senior figures in the government in Kampala...

Last October Senator Jim Risch the Republican chair of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee urged the Trump administration to apply terrorist designation to the RSF which he said had ‘waged terror and committed unspeakable atrocities genocide among them against the Sudanese people' (Dispatches 23/2/26 UN says Hemeti's RSF committed genocide in siege of El Fasher)...

Earlier this month Republican Senator Jim Risch tabled amendments to the National Defence Authorization Act that would require a three-month review of Kenya's major non-NATO ally status (AC Vol 65 No 12 Ruto revels in the western embrace)...