US senators including James Risch who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Ted Cruz who chairs the Africa sub-committee and supports independence for Somaliland (AC Vol 67 No 1 Trump allies split over Mogadishu as Israel recognises breakaway Somaliland & Vol 67 No 5 Love me love my minerals) adamantly oppose funding for UN and AU operations in Somalia...
Last November Shaheen and Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Jim Risch said that ‘marred by state-sponsored political repression targeted abductions and manipulation...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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US Senator Jim Risch chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations echoed the hardening stance: ‘The US should take strong action against South Africa ' he said in response to joint naval exercises with Iran (AC Vol 67 No 2 Ramaphosa's authority shaken as generals defy orders)...
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...
