By Nigel Roberts |Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is scaling back career diplomats at an alarming rate, firing most of the department’s senior African-American diplomats in the process, the New York Times reported. Meanwhile, his aides have fired some career Foreign Service officers and pressured others to resign. His goal is to reduce the State Department’s senior diplomatic core by about 2,000 and remove lower-ranking staff by October 2018. The State Department, which has long lacked diversity, has also reduced its number of high-level Latino and female diplomats. About 82 percent of the department’s Foreign Service officers are White, Edward Joseph Perkins, a former U.S.

Source: GNN Liberia November 26, 2017 15:11 UTC