After suffering a terrible civil war that killed three million people in three years, and a police state giving way to a military dictatorship, working-class and middle-class Nigerians were not just worn out after the 1970 coup but also bitterly angry that they were seeing no benefits whatsoever from the discovery of huge oilfields or their country's membership of Opec.
Mali has come to the world's attention in the last few months as a sad and frustrating basket case that is suffering a harsh civil war.
The couple's marital strains seem mended, and Farrah says that now that she understands that her husband is suffering from a war wound, she is committed to seeing him through.
Probably not many current-day Afghans, suffering from a war of liberation of their own, have read Mr. Hitchcock's remarkable book, "The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe," which, though largely neglected by reviewers, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize this year.
Almost completely cut off from the outside world, Abkhazia is still suffering from a war that's very much alive in people's minds.
"A child suffering in a war, a disaster, an epidemic, a famine or a drought doesn't know – doesn't care – about the wider global context, about whether we are gaining ground or losing ground in meeting global challenges," UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said in his opening remarks to the session.
Fired by a love of adventure, he competed in motorbike racing at Brooklands in 1934, and later saw action as a member of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, suffering a wound to the stomach that necessitated repatriation to England.
The French Atlantic fleet, based at the fortified port of Brest in Brittany, was in a state of political turmoil during the early years of the war, suffering a mutiny in August 1793, and then defeat at the battle of Glorious First of June in 1794.
Syria is suffering an appalling civil war.
This is misleading spin, carefully orchestrated to allow Mr Obama to move into the presidential election year boasting that he has ended an unpopular war without suffering a defeat.
