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Mon 01 Jan 2010History of greed stacked odds against Haiti
One thing Haiti, Somalia, Afghanistan and Zaire have in common is the lack of an organised state, even pre-disaster
THE DANTEAN images from Port-au-Prince offer wrenching tableaux of what can happen when a natural catastrophe ravages a failing state with inadequate systems of governance. Failed states are a new challenge. During the cold war neither superpower could allow one of its client states, however grotesque or ramshackle, to fail. The former Zaire and Somalia are prime examples.
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