GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 42 million people remained uprooted at the end of 2008, as deteriorating security prevented many from returning to their homes in hotspots such as Afghanistan and Sudan, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.
They include 16 million refugees who fled war or persecution and 26 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) within their own borders. This was an overall drop of 700,000 over the end of the previous year, it said in its annual Global Trends report.
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