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The 10 Worst Countries
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| http://www.msnbc.com/news/594966.asp July 9 issue * Benighted nations that plumb the depths of state oppression, poverty and all-round misery. 1. NORTH KOREA A vast gulag where citizens are forced to worship their 'Great Leader,' who lets them die like flies 2. AFGHANISTAN As if an endless civil war and psychotic regime were not enough, a punishing drought is starving millions 3. SIERRA LEONE Africa's most brutal war has taken life and limb, literally, from thousands of children 4. SUDAN Ethnic and religious enmities have so riven the country that it hardly qualifies as a nation at all 5. ANGOLA A quarter century of civil war*and the rich, feeding off oil profits, are still getting richer 6. TAJIKISTAN The poorest of the former Soviet republics is torn between a two-bit dictator and disgruntled warlords 7. DEM. REP. OF CONGO Plagued by every ill of our times: greed, ethnic tension, civil war, foreign aggression, AIDS, poverty 8. ALBANIA Smuggling is the biggest foreign-exchange earner, and criminal gangs hold more sway than the state 9. HAITI Misrule and international donor fatigue continue to make a potential Caribbean paradise a hell on earth 10. IRAQ The worst of both worlds*sanctions have ravaged the economy and Saddam's boot is as heavy as ever |
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