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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deaddamitha666" data-source="post: 8394039" data-attributes="member: 305601"><img src="http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/07/postcards-from-hell/postcards-from-hell-01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Somalia has topped the Failed States Index for the last three years — a  testament not only to the depth of the country’s long-running political  and humanitarian disaster, but also, to the international community’s  inability to find an answer. After two decades of chaos, the country is  today largely under the control of Islamist militant groups, the most  notorious and powerful of which is al-Shabab. A second faction, Hizbul  Islam, rivals the former in brutality — it recently executed two Somalis  for the crime of watching the World Cup. Off the coast, pirates such as  the men pictured here torment passing ships, often holding them hostage  for a high price. In 2009, Somali pirates earned an estimated $89  million in ransom payments.<img src="http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/07/postcards-from-hell/postcards-from-hell-02.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Chad’s troubles are often written off as spillover from the conflict  taking place in next-door Darfur, Sudan. But this central  African  country has plenty of problems of its own. An indigenous conflict has  displaced approximately 200,000, and life under the paranoid rule of  Chadian President  Idriss Déby is increasingly miserable. Déby has  arrested opposition figures and redirected humanitarian funding to  the  military in recent years. Matters might soon get worse as the U.N.   peacekeeping mission in the country’s east, where the bulk of the  refugees reside,  begins to depart on July 15. Pictured here, local  Chadians in the village of Dankouche  struggle to share scarce resources  such as firewood with a nearby Sudanese  refugee camp.<img src="http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/07/postcards-from-hell/postcards-from-hell-03.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The next year will prove a decisive one for Sudan, perhaps more so than  any other since the country’s independence in 1956. In  January 2011,  the people of South Sudan will vote in a referendum on whether  they  would prefer to remain an autonomous region — or secede as an  independent  state. All analysts predict it will be the latter, but they  are equally certain  that it won’t be  so easy. President Omar Hassan  al-Bashir is likely to cling close  to his control of the South, where  much of the country’s oil riches lie. This  is to say nothing of Darfur,  where peacekeepers recently reported an uptick  in violence with  hundreds killed. In this scene, children crowd around a  U.N. helicopter  in the South Sudanese town of Akobo.<img src="http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/07/postcards-from-hell/postcards-from-hell-04.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/07/postcards-from-hell/postcards-from-hell-56.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/07/postcards-from-hell/postcards-from-hell-05.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/07/postcards-from-hell/postcards-from-hell-48.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/07/postcards-from-hell/postcards-from-hell-06.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/07/postcards-from-hell/postcards-from-hell-07.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.chilloutpoint.com/images/2010/07/postcards-from-hell/postcards-from-hell-08.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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