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Africa: Failed States Index

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Development, Economics & Business, Human Rights, Politics, Refugees, War & Conflict

Codrin Arsene of the African Politics blog comments [1] 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).”