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Natural disasters drive 36m people from their homes in 2008

September 25th, 2009

The numbers of people displaced around the world – either by natural disasters or by man-made disasters like wars – is mind-boggling.

And whilst our attention here in the North is grabbed from time to time by a particularly newsworthy disaster, which affects a particularly large number of people, the scale of the ongoing displacements is what should be being noted.

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