Around this time of the year The Economist publishes its annual publication, “The World in …” The 2010 edition just came out. The prize is not something to be proud of.
This year’s prize, surprise, surprise, goes to an African country: Somalia, and claims it has good reasons:
“… Calling Somalia a country is a stretch. It has a president, prime minister and parliament, but with little influence outside a few strongholds in the capital, Mogadishu. What passes for a government is protected by an African Union peacekeeping force guarding the presidential palace. Most of the country is controlled by two armed, radical Islamist factions … Poor countries are often defined by their weak health, education and income measures, but conditions in Somalia are mostly too wretched to record…. “
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