Liberia
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Africa’s oldest republic has ranked amongst the poorest countries in the world for many years. Expectations were high when the former football star George Weah became president in 2018.
Chad
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Chad has Africa’s tenth-largest oil reserves yet poverty remains widespread, making it the ninth poorest country in the world.
Malawi
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Malawi has enjoyed stable governments since it gained independence from Britain in 1964. But in 2020, the country’s constitutional court annulled former president Peter Mutharika’s win for re-election.
Niger
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With 80% of its landlocked territory covered by the Sahara Desert and a rapidly growing population dependent upon small-scale agriculture, Niger is under threat from desertification.
Mozambique
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Rich in resources and strategically located, this former Portuguese colony has often posted average GDP growth rates of more than 7% in the past decade
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
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Since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, the DRC has suffered decades of rapacious dictatorship, political instability
Somalia
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This country of 17 million in the Horn of Africa never seems to catch a break: 2020 brought coronavirus, floods and an unprecedented infestation of locusts
Central African Republic (CAR)
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Rich in gold, oil, uranium and diamonds, the Central African Republic is a very wealthy country inhabited by very poor people