Afghanistan risks becoming a 'failed state'
The government appears paralysed, the economy is sinking and insecurity is rising
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- Sinking economy
- Security decline
- Attrition of local forces
- Taliban advances
- Rise of private militias
- Tribes seek 'insurance policy'
- State decay
- Inevitable failure?
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_350.jpg "Afghan firefighters and security forces try to douse a fire after a suicide car bomb blast attacked a military convoy in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, Afghanistan (Reuters/Abdul Malik)")