Refugees: The desperate search for home away from home

Susan Chemusunde Korir feeds refugees from Uganda in Trans Nzoia, Kenya in 2016. Most refugees are hosted by neighbouring countries. [File, Standard]

Did you know 37,000 people are forced from their homes every day? And that one in every 108 people on earth is now displaced?

For the first time ever, the number of displaced people reached 70.8 million at the end of 2018, the UN refugee agency UNHCR says in its Global Trends report released yesterday.