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Why we are in danger of becoming a failed State

By Billow Kerrow

Our great nation has again been ranked as a State in ‘danger’ of becoming a failed State. Ranked 16th out of 172 countries surveyed by Fund for Peace, Kenya is 15 places below the topmost failed state in the world – Somalia. We are ranked worse than Burundi, Liberia and Eritrea in the league of the world’s most vulnerable countries that are deemed to be a ‘threat to their own inhabitants’, the face of a ‘new world disorder’. Combined, the failed states are home to ‘humanity’s bottom billions’.

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