WASHINGTON, April 22 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48513) on April 21, 2025, entitled "Uganda: Current Issues and U.S. Relations" by African affairs specialist Lauren Ploch Blanchard. Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY Uganda, led by one of the world's longest-serving heads of state, President Yoweri Museveni, has one of the youngest, most rapidly growing, and fastest urbanizing populations in the world. The country has never had a democratic transitio more PR

WASHINGTON, April 22 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48513) on April 21, 2025, entitled "Uganda - Current Issues and U.S. Relations:" (Continued from Part 1 of 2) * * * Regional Issues Uganda has complicated relationships with some of its neighbors. It has intervened militarily in DRC and South Sudan, and its forces have been accused of human rights abuses and trafficking natural resources, including gold, timber, and ivory, from those countries./58 M more PR

LONDON, England, April 23 -- The British Ministry of Defence issued the following speech on April 22, 2025, by Secretary John Healey to the House of Commons: * * * Thank you Mr Speaker. Today, HMS Prince of Wales set sail from Portsmouth and I trust the whole House will join me in wishing the entire carrier strike group a safe and successful global deployment. Mr Speaker, I wish to make a statement on the ongoing war in Ukraine. Today, parliament returns from its Easter break. But during th more PR

WASHINGTON, April 22 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following news: * * * China's Spring Courtship Fails to Win Europe's Heart It is not in the regular stylebook for the official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, to evoke bright blue skies, swaying coconut trees, and the soft rustle of sea breezes in a report on international trade. All these featured in its dispatch from China's southern island of Hainan last week, marking a change of tone from the agency's austere standa more PR

WASHINGTON, April 22 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Durbin Statement On Secretary of State Rubio Announcing "Sweeping Reorganization" At The State Department April 22, 2025 CHICAGO - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) released the following statement after Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled a plan to significantly reorganize the State Department, including targeting human rights programs and others focused on war crimes and d more PR

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Adam Schiff, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * NEWS: After Latest Hegseth Scandal, Sen. Schiff Urges National Archives to Open Investigation into Use of Non-Governmental Apps and Inclusion of Private Citizens on Sensitive National Security Communications Washington, D.C. - In the wake of new reports on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's use of non-governmental applications and devices for communications about sensitive U.S. military operation more PR

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following readout by spokesperson Tammy Bruce on Secretary Marco Rubio's call with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: * * * Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke today with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to brief him on the peace proposal presented yesterday to the Ukrainian delegation in Paris and to Russian officials by telephone. The Secretary expressed President Trump's and the United States' hopes that this proposal will be  more PR