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SOMALIA TOPS FAILED STATE INDEX FOR FIFTH YEAR

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SOMALIA TOPS FAILED STATE INDEX FOR FIFTH YEAR

Postby tightrope » Mon Jun 18, 2012 5:59 pm

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Somalia tops failed states index for fifth year


Six African nations are in the top 10 of an annual failed-state index, including Somalia, which heads the list for the fifth straight year after continued struggles with lawlessness and piracy.

Somalia tops the 2012 Failed States Index because of “widespread lawlessness, ineffective government, terrorism, insurgency, crime, and well-publicized pirate attacks against foreign vessels,” the list’s compiler, Washington-based nonprofit Fund for Peace, said on its website Monday.

The group’s eighth annual list, which ranks instability risks of 177 nations based on 12 social, economic and political indicators, was published Monday by Foreign Policy magazine. Nations ranking high on the list aren’t necessarily failed states, but are facing enormous pressure stemming from factors such as uneven development, economic decline and human-rights issues, according to Fund for Peace.

The top 10 nations on the 2012 Failed States Index are:

1) Somalia

2) Democratic Republic of Congo

3) Sudan

4) Chad

5) Zimbabwe

6) Afghanistan

7) Haiti

8) Yemen

9) Iraq

10) Central African Republic

See Foreign Policy's interactive Failed States Index map

Foreign Policy magazine notes that Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is enjoying a period of relative peace. CNN has reported that African Union troops last year pushed Al-Shabaab, an Islamic militant group affiliated with al Qaeda, out of central Mogadishu after years of bitter urban fighting.

But battles between the groups continue elsewhere in Somalia. And last week, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama for the first time publicly stated that U.S. military forces are engaged in direct action against suspected terrorists in Somalia.

The biggest shifts happened outside the top 10 - mostly rankings of countries that experienced uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East last year. The worst decline was in Libya, which went from well outside the top 60 to No. 50 "as a result of civil war, a NATO-led campaign of airstrikes and the toppling of the (Gadhafi) regime," the Fund for Peace said.

Syria, where an uprising has endured for more than a year, registered the fourth-greatest single-year jump in the index's history (from No. 48 in 2011 to No. 23 in 2012).

Haiti, which jumped to the top 10 last year after 2010's devastating earthquake, is the list's sole Western Hemisphere representative in the top 10.

Other notable rankings: Pakistan, No. 13; North Korea, No. 22; Iran, No. 34; United States, No. 159. Finland was considered the most stable, at No. 177.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/18/so ... ifth-year/

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Re: SOMALIA TOPS FAILED STATE INDEX FOR FIFTH YEAR

Postby Thuganomics » Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:04 pm

:shock: :shock: :shock: :lol:

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Postby TeAmo » Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:07 pm

Insha'Allah hopefully this year will be the last year that Somalia is the 1st and hopefully 5 years later it won't be in the list.
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Re: SOMALIA TOPS FAILED STATE INDEX FOR FIFTH YEAR

Postby tightrope » Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:08 pm

TWO DECADES AND SOMALIA IS STILL IN WAR :down:
PUNTLAND HAS WAITED FOR TOO LONG. IT'S TIME FOR PUNTLAND TO BREAKAWAY FROM ZOOMALIA! :up:
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Re: SOMALIA TOPS FAILED STATE INDEX FOR FIFTH YEAR

Postby Khalid Ali » Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:17 pm

Tighrope stop this secession idea's its you're job to let Somalia shine again after all you are Majeerteen
What did the SYL fight for Omar samatar die for what did cabilahi yusuf believed in until his last day on this earth
Why is Abdiweli working day in day out getting almost killed in a blast because he believes in his country.
Why is faroole fighting so hard to create a new Somalia with a new state structure
Tightrope every one in Somalia is looking what Puntland doing what are they cooking there
Tighrope don't be a follower be a leader.

Now lets sing


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Re: SOMALIA TOPS FAILED STATE INDEX FOR FIFTH YEAR

Postby AhmedBoqor » Mon Jun 18, 2012 6:41 pm

Look at this way; who the hell would wanna be 2nd on this list?

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Postby Thuganomics » Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:48 pm

Look at this way; who the hell would wanna be 2nd on this list?


:lol: :lol: :lol:

This reminds me of that joke where they had a leauge for the most corrupt nation and Nigeria won Pakistan came second
So then Nigeria paid laaluush to Pakistan to take the title

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Re: SOMALIA TOPS FAILED STATE INDEX FOR FIFTH YEAR

Postby nomadicwarlord » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:00 pm

Somalia has monopolized the concept of failure. :som: :up: I'm now starting to believe that the humanoid aliens in the movie "Prometheus" were Somalis :lol:


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