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Ghana Is Not One of 60 Most Failed States of the World.

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 Source: Dr. Gabriel Ayisi

“During the last half-decade, the Fund for Peace has been putting together the Failed States Index, using a battery of indicators that determine how stable (or unstable) a country is. We have taken the top sixty (60) or should we say worst sixty Failed Countries of the World. But as much as we admire the stats and numbers, there is no better way as the photos that demonstrate the degree of failure of a country. The best test is the simplest one, which is that you’ll know a failed state when you see it” – Fund for Peace..

Fortunately, Ghana is not on the list and we need to do everything to safeguard the God-Sent-Peace we are enjoying. We should not allow the Kennedy Agyapongs and other misguided politicians within our mist to derail the relative peace and onward development, no matter how slow. Without peace, there will be no development.

Our neighbor, Nigeria, is on the list, thanks to Boko Haram. Ivory Coast is also on the list, thanks to Laurent Gbagbo. In fact, Togo made the list, as well as Burkina Faso, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Chad, Niger, Guinea, and Cameroon (almost all the West African Countries). Let us preserve the Peace in Ghana.

1 Somalia (Worst in the World)

2 Chad

3 Sudan

4 Zimbabwe

5 Democratic Republic of Congo

6 Afghanistan

7 Iraq

8 Central African Republic

9 Guinea

10 Pakistan

11 Haiti

12 Ivory Coast

13 Kenya

14 Nigeria

15 Yemen

16 Burma

17 Ethiopia

18 East Timor

19 Niger and North Korea

20 Uganda

21 Guinea Bissau

22 Burundi

23 Bangladesh

24 Sri Lanka

25 Cameroon

26 Nepal

27 Malawi

28 Sierra Leone

29 Eritrea

30 Republic of the Congo

31 Iran

32 Liberia

33 Lebanon

34 Burkina Faso

35 Uzbekistan

36 Georgia

37 Tajikistan

38 Mauritania

39 Cambodia

40 Laos

41 Rwanda

42 Solomon Islands

43 Equatorial Guinea

44 Kyrgyzstan

45 Colombia

46 Togo

47 Syria

48 Egypt

49 Bhutan

50 Philippines

51 Comoros

52 Bolivia

53 Israel

54 West Bank

55 Azerbaijan

56 Papua New Guinea

57 Zambia

58 Moldova

59 Angola

60 Bosnia-Herzegovina

Columnist: Dr. Gabriel Ayisi