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Lekan Sote Published 2 June 2021Somebody, likely a cynic, said Nigeria is a failed state that is working. This, because the indices of a failed state are evident in Nigeria, though the political and economic structures have not quite collapsed.America’s Council of Foreign Relations thinks that Nigeria has degenerated from a weak state to a failed state because of the inability of its government to curb large-scale violence and insurgency.Things.
The 2021 Fragile 15: Upheavals in a time of COVID
After a pandemic year, the concept of “fragility” seems more relevant than ever. As the rankings in this year’s annual Fragile States Index (FSI) suggest, global emergencies such as COVID-19 can expose the fault lines that feed assumptions about what fragility is, which states are fragile, and what resilience looks like in the face of crises.
Drawing on our first-hand, on-the-ground reporting, we offer a glimpse at the lives behind the FSI data in three categories: The five most fragile states; five with notable increases or decreases in fragility; and five that are dealing with key humanitarian crises. We hear from Yemenis struggling to buy food for their families, from Syrian refugees in Lebanon confronting spiralling inflation, from asylum seekers at the southern US border dealing with Trump-administration policies put in place during the coronavirus pandemic – policies that effectively cut off access to asylum.