Jul 11, 2021
As of May 31, 2021, a United States based magazine (Foreign Affairs) owned by the Council on Foreign Relations, published an article which called Nigeria a failed state.
The expert view was co-authored by a Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, John Campbell and the Founding Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict, Robert I. Rotberg.
The article hinged Nigeria’s failure on three issues: Insecurity, Corruption, and the Economy.
But security challenge was its major ground for concluding that the country had failed.
According to the article , “If a state’s first obligation to those it governs is to provide for their security and maintain a monopoly on the use of violence, then Nigeria has failed, even if some other aspects of the state still function.
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All eyes on US exit from Afghanistan
Updated May 1, 2021, 2:30 a.m.
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Biden gave away a key bargaining lever
When the United States abandons Afghanistan this spring or in the summer, the Taliban will triumph. Kabul will soon fall. And women will again be subjugated to patriarchal fervor. Jeff Jacoby was quite right to warn that âthe Taliban will grow stronger and bolderâ (âBidenâs blunder in Afghanistan,â Opinion, April 21). The ongoing civil conflict will escalate, and any kind of representative democracy will fall before the fundamentalist diktats of the Taliban. This is President Bidenâs first and most alarming blunder, even given its undoubted domestic political benefits.