Ethiopia is following the path of failed states in the Horn of Africa BY ANTHONY CHIBARIRWE | THE TRUMPET Ethiopia faces a high risk of failure due to continued political and social instability in the country, the Fund for Peace reported in its Fragile States Index Annual Report 2017. Over the past few years, months, […]
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BY MARYANNE GICOBI | THE EAST AFRICAN East and central African countries have once again ranked poorly in a Washington-based think tank’s annual rating of countries’ susceptibility to instability. South Sudan returned to position one as the most troubled country from position two while Ethiopia recorded the greatest worsening globally over 2016, according to Fragile […]
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Maddux, SOUTH Sudan is now the world’s most fragile nation, displacing Somalia, which has held the top spot for the last six years. The Fund for Peace, in partnership with the Foreign Policy Magazine have tracked South Sudan since 2012, not long after it became the African continent’s newest country.
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