Postcards from Hell: A rogue’s gallery of failed states
As Foreign Policy’s Elizabeth Dickinson writes in the introduction to this powerful photo essay, “As the photos here demonstrate, sometimes the best test is the simplest one: You’ll only know a failed state when you see it.”
Here, men in Uganda rallying against corrupt strongman Yoweri Museveni, in power since 1986, burn a bus in protest.
Intercommunal violence in Nigeria’s middle belt means the sight of mass graves is common in the area.
The Failed States Index 2010 (Foreign Policy)