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)...

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)...