Li Fan of the World and China Institute, a private consultancy in Beijing, says that the experiment with village elections has "died" and the party's talk of expanding democracy within its own ranks, a big agenda item for an annual meeting of its central committee in September, is "empty words".
According to a UNICEF rapid assessment on Monday, Kanyaruchinya displaced site, which had hosted at least 30,000 people since July, is empty as former residents have fled towards Goma.
"Nasser took everything!" he said, "and left us this trash!" He pointed at a heap of flotsam garbage, and then to his chest: "I am a hero of October 6th!" Mubarak built a vast rotunda memorial to commemorate the 6th of October; it was empty of visitors when I visited it a few months ago.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Mubarak built a vast rotunda memorial to commemorate the 6th of October; it was empty of visitors when I visited it a few months ago.
It is only a short way east of the Giant's Causeway, but when I visited (in March) it was empty apart from a herd of cattle which had wandered on to its glorious white sand.
A freedom of information request filed by the Guardian and ITV News revealed that by the end of August the database was empty.
The Ugandan police said they had looked again in the latrine, where six corpses were found in March, but it was empty.
I imagined the lake swarming with activity during the summer, but being early October, the lake was empty – the still water reflecting the sky like a mirror.
I saw something I had not seen since I started my internship in early June: the street was empty.
So, when one morning in September, the window was empty, the students on the bus were concerned and wanted to make sure their "grandma" was OK. "It was kind of heartbreaking because she was always there," Axtin Bandewerfhorst, a seventh-grader, told the news outlet.
