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June 27, 2011 (JUBA) - Sudan has been listed as the third most failed state in the world after Somalia and Chad, in this year’s failed states index, compiled by the Fund for Peace and published by Foreign Policy on 20 June, after neighbouring Chad and Somalia, which occupies the unenviable first position. Sudan - failed state (Foreign Policy) Sudan is due to split into two separate nation in less than two weeks, when South Sudan will become independent, following a successful referendum held in January this year. The vote was a key part of Sudan’s 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which ended over two decades of war between North and South of the country. South Sudan will, by UN standards will be one of the world’s poorest countries. Somalia, according to the index, has now held the top spot for four years in a row, reportedly indicating the depth of the crisis in the international community’s longest-running failure. The new edition of the index, according to the foreign policy magazine, “draws on some 130,000 publicly available sources to analyze 177 countries and rate them on 12 indicators of pressure on the state during the year 2010 — from refugee flows to poverty, public services to security threats.” The report questioned why Sudan still remains on the brink of new forms of violent conflict, despite the country’s closely monitored January referendum, which was free of bloodshed. According to the report, however, this year’s biggest challenge of all will be dealing with the global fallout of the Arab revolutions. “Few could have predicted that a street vendor’s humiliation [in Tunisia] would be the spark that set an entire region ablaze, with consequences that may reach far beyond the Middle East,” says the report. (ST). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
