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Africa: Failed States Index

Friday, July 25th, 2008 @ 21:04 UTC

by Elia Varela Serra

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Topics:: Development, Economics, Human Rights, Refugees, War & Conflict, Politics
Languages:: English

Codrin Arsene of the African Politics blog comments on the recently released Failed States Index for 2008, noting that “seven out of the ten most failed states in the world are from Africa, namely Somalia (1st), Sudan (2nd), Zimbabwe (3rd), Chad (4th), the Democratic Republic of Congo (6th), Cote D’Ivoire (8th) and the Central African Republic (10th).”

1 comment

Linda

Well that’s a lot!!!!
Nice article though:)

# 2008-07-26 at 4:14 am

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