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| Posted July 21, 2001 |
| Newsweek |
| The 10 worst countries in the world |
| Newsweek International |
| July 9, 2001 issue - Benighted nations that plumb the depts |
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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