April 21, 2021 President Yoweri Museveni inspecting an army parade
The USA threatened action against human rights abuses in Uganda for months in 2020 and last Friday an official travel ban was announced against unnamed high-profile government officials shining critical light on an increasingly important question: How damaging are the existential consequences for such banishment for the country and certainly the sanctioned individuals?
Though no names were mentioned, at least we have an inkling of who must be on the travel blacklist. When Congressmen began pushing the outgone Donald Trump administration last October for a more muscular response to what they described as “human rights abuses in Uganda and the country’s slide toward authoritarianism, the lead campaigners brandished a list of errant Ugandan officers that should be sanctioned.
E.O. 14024”) on April 15, 2021, expanding sanctions against Russia. E.O. 14024 authorizes, for the first time, U.S. sanctions against Russian technology companies and, through Directive 1 thereunder, expands prohibitions on dealings relating to Russian sovereign debt. On the same day, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“
OFAC”) added numerous individuals and entities to its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (the “
SDN List”) pursuant to Russia sanctions authorities.
E.O. 14024
E.O. 14024 establishes broad authority for additional sanctions targeting Russia. It authorizes blocking sanctions against a wide range of individuals and entities, including, most notably, persons determined to:
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Recently, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) sanctioned various individuals and entities connected to Russia’s technology sector and also expanded sanctions against dealings in Russian sovereign debt. In addition to these immediate actions, President Biden also issued a new Executive Order which will significantly expand OFAC’s authority to impose future sanctions against Russia.
Background
The White House published a Fact Sheet which explains the recent sanctions actions were a response to Russian election interference and cyber-attacks directed at the United States. A month prior to these sanctions actions, the U.S. National Intelligence Council issued its Foreign Threats to the 2020 U.S. Federal Elections report, which officially concluded that a range of Russian government organizations had attempted to influence the 2020 U.S. presidential election by promoting “misle
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On April 15, 2021, the Biden Administration imposed new sanctions on Russia in response to: (1) its efforts to interfere in U.S. and other countries’ elections; (2) the Solar Winds hacks; and (3) Russia’s continued occupation of the Crimea region of Ukraine. These new sanctions include broad authority under a newly issued Executive Order to impose sanctions across any sector of the Russian economy, including asset freezes, additional targeted designations, and visa restrictions (the “new Executive Order” or “EO”).
The Administration concurrently issued a new Directive that prohibits U.S. financial institutions from trading in both certain non-ruble and ruble-denominated Russian sovereign debt on primary markets. The new sanctions expand existing restrictions on trading in Russian non-ruble-denominated debt by U.S. banks. Finally, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) at the United States Department