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While highlighting significant progress of state-building in Somalia, the State Department official told reporters on Monday that government infighting has delayed progress in the country, which was considered a failed state for much of the last two decades.

"The secretary's visit is to be applauded, [and] continues the effort to support Somalia's climb out of a very deep trough of instability that had turned that country into a failed state for much of the last two decades," Carson, a former ambassador to various countries in Africa who had a 37-year-long diplomatic career, told VICE News.

It's been a failed state for 20 years.

Afghanistan was a perfect environment (as a failed state) for Bin Laden to hatch the plan of attacks of September 11 , 2001

Intervention in Libya created a failed state, a base for jihadists, and more killing.

We were the welfare state for a failed state.

She pointed out that Clinton "was the head cheerleader and architect of the war to overthrow the Libyan government of Qaddafi, which has resulted in chaos, a failed state, and a stronghold for ISIS and Al Qaeda".

Since then, Mr. Mariani has been on a quixotic journey about bridge safety, earthquakes and what he sees as a failed state law ultimately responsible for the loss of lives.

Toby Dodge and Nicholas Redman, the study's co-editors, say the Afghan government has enough power to "impose a rough and ready control" but they conclude: "It will require extended oversight by the international community if Afghanistan is to avoid becoming once again a failed state and a platform for international terrorism".

Chad is listed as a failed state by the Fund for Peace (FFP).

The country is now a failed state, a breeding ground for terrorists and human traffickers, ruled by dueling parliaments and devastated by a civil war that has killed thousands of people.