9. Sudan and South Sudan
The government is still carrying out atrocities against its people in Darfur and Kordofan as it tries to fight separatist groups. The newly-created nation of South Sudan has also been plagued by conflict since its birth in 2011.
10. Pakistan
More than 20,000 people have been killed in recent years mainly in the north of the country by fighting between insurgency groups such as the Taliban and government and American forces.
11. Somalia
Islamist group Al-Shaabab has inflicted misery on civilian Somalis for decades, effectively turning the country into failed state.
For a while it seemed as though the hundreds of thousands of people who fled to Kenya and other neighbouring countries might be able to return home, but there has been an escalation in violence in the last two years or so, and the worst drought in the region in 60 years has also forced many more to leave.