Municipal polls will be a test for the opposition, even as political ambitions divide the ruling party, Dakar will be the big electoral prize on Sunday, when voters elect municipal and departmental councillors in the first local polls in eight years. Control of the capital will deliver media coverage and bragging rights to the opposition or the government.
China has been relocating Tibetans by demolishing their existing homes and coercing the poor Tibetans to accept fresh village homes in bordering villages with an aim to sideline the minority community and fulfil Beijing s strategic interests, according to a report.
systemic sidelining of career officers or historic proposed budget cuts which have brought applications to the foreign service to a two decade low. and it is not just acts of political arson such as the groundless mccarthyist attacks against professionals perceived to be disloyal. it is the cronyism that we see on full and gory display in the ukraine scandal. the counter the contrary narrative to that is the testimony of those career professionals whom we saw from the nsc and fiona hill, from david hale, the state department, william taylor and the others who came forward not resistings subpoenas and showed the meddle of these yovanovitch certainly. very brave diplomats. it is very true. and these are people who demonstrated dignity in a undignified moment in washington. they demonstrated
to the u.s. foreign policy interest and were about his own personal agenda. and what s also important to understand is that the president wants to make this about one call and what we learned from the past week is that this is basically a scandal that goes back a full year in terms of their desire to remove marie yovanovitch, the smear campaign against her. kind of all the back-channel meetings that were happening. the sidelining of career officials. this wasn t just one phone call. and even on this one phone call, obviously you have you will see there s some disagreement as to what the implication of it was. but the fact that this eventually was moved to a different server i think suggests on someone s part that it was problematic. but i think you need to take a look at this whole picture and the fact that the ukrainians understood and we know that from george kent s testimony and bill taylor s testimony, they understood that a demand was being made of them. and they were basically