Failed States
List of Failed States articles
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Illustration by Sean McCabe for FP La Vie en %$!
Why is France still propping up Africa's dictators?
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LYNSEY ADDARIO/VII NETWORK Where Autocrats Don’t Fear to Tread
Why dictators love the United Nations.
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Illustration by Sean McCabe for FP Beijing’s Coalition of the Willing
For the West, failed states are a problem. For China, they're an opportunity.
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PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/Getty Images Mr. Lonely
The twilight of Chad's paranoid tyrant.
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PETER MARTELL/AFP/Getty Images Africa’s North Korea
Inside Eritrea's open-air prison.
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PHOTO BY JUAN VRIJDAG A Literal Disaster
Things are just what they seem in the Central African Republic.
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567918_100619_Ayitteyopener12.png The Worst of the Worst
Bad dude dictators and general coconut heads.
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Illustration by Sean McCabe for FP Why Bad Guys Matter
They put the failed in failed states.
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567931_100616_910010932.jpg Watch List
Four countries in big trouble.
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ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images Mogadishu Was a Blast
Our trip to the world’s most failed state -- by way of Kandahar.
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SVEN TORFINN/PANOS In the Beginning, There Was Somalia
Two decades later, the U.S. still has no plan.
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Courtesy of Jeffrey Gettleman Why I Keep Going Back to Somalia
What the world's most dangerous place looks like behind the screen of bullets.
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WALTER ASTRADA/AFP/Getty Images There Is No Congo
Why the only way to help Congo is to stop pretending it exists.
