3 Worst Cities on Earth  Iraq, Chad, and Côte d’Ivoire round out
bottom of Mercer's quality of life list.    [View a slideshow of
three worst cities on Earth.]   Unsurprisingly, Baghdad, Iraq,
is the least safe city in the world after nearly nine years of
war and over 100,000 civilian deaths in the country since 2003.
Once the shining capital of the Islamic world, Baghdad has been
in a state of upheaval and civil strife, and travel to the city
is not advised, the survey says.  Coming in at a close second,
N’Djamena, Chad, is another place to avoid. Like Iraq,
authorities advise people to never go to Chad at all, but
visitors are allowed under certain circumstances in N’Djamena,
the country’s capital. The city played host to a battle that
displaced as many as 30,000 people just three years ago, and it
has been plagued by civil conflicts for nearly half a century.
Not be outdone by its African neighbor to the west, Abidjan,
Côte d’Ivoire, is the third least safe city in the world. Unlike
Baghdad and N’Djamena,