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Refugee Camp Statistics

What is the average length of stay in a refugee camp? It is regularly reported that it is 17 years but is this true?

What is the average length of stay in a refugee camp? It is regularly reported that it is 17 years but is this true?

Floppy Disks

This week’s shocking revelation of the computer world was that the Department of Defence still uses 1970s floppy disks to coordinate its nuclear weapons systems. But can it possibly be true that you could fit more than three million of them on a single ten dollar USB drive?

Producer: Laura Gray
Presenter: Ruth Alexander

(Image: An Afghan woman carries laundry in a refugee camp in Malakasa. Credit: Milos Bicanski / Getty)

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Mon 30 May 2016 14:50GMT
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