More than a quarter of ambassador positions are without a Senate-confirmed official, hindering American diplomacy
Partnership for Public Service
JULY 15, 2022
For example, when the Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram abducted more than 200 school girls in Nigeria in 2014, the U.S. embassy in Kabul closed after the Taliban takeover in August of 2021, and American diplomats now operating thousands of miles away in Doha, Qatar.
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