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Portraits of Instability

Haunting images from the world's most fragile states.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON, ANNIE LOWREY, JOSHUA KEATING | JULY/AUG 2009

8. CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

The middle seat: A man squats in a refugee camp in the northern Central African Republic (CAR), after a rebel raid sent refugees fleeing. CAR is surrounded on all sides by conflict -- and the small country of just 4.5 million has suffered greatly as a result. In addition to CAR's own homegrown rebellion, Sudan and Chad's conflicts have pushed both refugees and fighters into the country's north. In the southeast, Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army has made incursions into CAR as it flees Ugandan and Congolese attempts to expel it from their own territory.

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June 29, 2009

Pakistan No 10 Failed state

This is FALSE

this seems very funny for an average Pakistani like me that Pakistan is more failed state than Nigeria, Kenya, and stands near Iraq, Afghanistan etc. this is false and surely based of wrong perceptions. No Pakistani can believe it. Pakistan is still much better place than many countries present in the same list.

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