In July Republican Senator Jim Risch tabled amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act requiring a three-month review of Kenya's major non-NATO ally status (AC Vol 65 No 12 Ruto revels in the western embrace)...
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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)...
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The SAF has also accused Kenya of supplying arms to the RSF while United States Senator Jim Risch a Republican has demanded an investigation into links between the Ruto government and the RSF as part of a review of Kenya's status as a major non-NATO ally of Washington (AC Vol 66 No 2 Washington's sanctions block Hemeti's war message)...
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Republican Jim Risch who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has tabled a bill demanding guaranteed audits and accountability about the mission's spending...
Chairing the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is Jim Risch who has called for South Africa's expulsion from the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which comes up for renewal in September...
A bill sponsored by Republican Jim Risch and Democrat Chris Coons had promised to expand AGOA's scope linking it with the African Continental Free Trade Agreement...
But a bipartisan bill sponsored by Republican Jim Risch and Democrat Chris Coons seeks to extend it until 2041 has been making slow progress...
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United States senators are hoping to take US/Africa trade policy out of party politics in an election year with Republican Jim Risch and Democrat Chris Coons having tabled a bill that would extend duty-free access to the US market under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) until 2041...
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Vol 64 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
On 9 June a bipartisan group of US lawmakers – including Republican senator Jim Risch of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Democrat representative Gregory Meeks and Republican representative Michael McCaul both of the House Foreign Affairs Committee – wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking to move November's scheduled annual meeting of AGOA member countries away from South Africa...
On 15 May the two top lawmakers on the Senate's foreign relations panel on Sudan called on the Biden Administration to appoint a new envoy for Sudan: Democrat Senator Bob Menendez and Republican James Risch also called for new direction to US-Sudan policy...