findings published for two thousand and eighteen the bottom five countries all burundi child south sudan some traffic republican measure or of those on africa why is the us. well again it might be tending to say there is an african syndrome here but i would not advocate that i think each one of these countries is facing challenges central african republic essentially strife conflict and the falling apart of many of the structures that actually would sustain development in a country such as chad we have first of all the challenge that it is a vast country to this day central government services in education and health don't even reach a significant part of the population so we are essentially dealing with countries that either are still a very early stage of putting the basic infrastructure human but also into the services access to electricity health education in place and then you have countries that are really falling apart again over civil strife conflict or wars and unfortunately. a significant number of those countries still are falling on the african continent joseph is going to be

at least three people have been killed and more in the government demonstrations in sudan protests as angry about rising food prices and the unstable economy they want president omar al bashir to step down but he remains defiant morgan is our correspondent in the seventies capital. was there. for three weeks now this has been the scene in many parts of sudan people coming out to protest against president obama to bashir is twenty nine year rule and demanding that he step down. or work out of whether we are under a dictatorship for thirty years they have used religion to stand power now is the right time for people to come out and protest you can see them firing tear gas you could even be a weird agent we citizens just want our rights to eat and drink and live with dignity like anyone else in the world. on wednesday thousands came out once again to protest in amman as they attempted to make their with deliberately diverse templi to handle memo demanding that the president resign was was the police responded using tear gas was an live ammunition to disperse the crowd. as seen different

there are more a car and these are the top stories on al-jazeera sudan's president omar al bashir has been addressing a pro-government rally in the capital called to try and counter mass protests against him but there is a few step down as it continues to blame sudan's economic problems on years of international sanctions that morgan is in khartoum today it is the first pro-government rally that has been organized since protests against president obama to be sure and his rule broke out three weeks ago now the people have been mobilized by the ruling party and the government and they say that they want to show the world that the president is not unwanted as people have been demonstrating against him over the past few weeks but there is also another and to government ready that is being organized today and people say that they will try to proceed on to the national this latest humbly to submit a memo saying that they want the government to step down and an interim council be formed and till elections are held now the president has repeated over and over again including today and said th

by professionals of sudan does that give this protest more power. well yes i mean let's realize that at this point it's seems to be every level of sudanese communities we're looking at people who have been facing economic crisis lower class lower income people who are also looking at people from middle class people who are well off there are protesting because it's going from the economy and our people are protesting the government itself it's not just about the fact that the country is facing high prices and inflation they think it's the way the country is governed the fact that they can't express themselves freely you know journalists are being evil can't come out and just express we've seen teachers yesterday just holding banners and being detained and beaten and arrested just because of that so it's not just about the fact that things are expensive in the market but there is no fuel this thing has quickly escalated from the economy to now the government and the fact there is so many restraints that the government is imposing so many restrictions