Millions of Afghans have returned to their homeland since the international community uprooted the Taliban regime in 2001, but more than 2.5 million are thought to remain – the second largest refugee population in the world.
So while our taxi lurched from lane to lane the driver pointed out some weary-looking sugar cane, trashed palms and uprooted trees.
From late 2006, the organisation was on the back foot – hampered by a tribal revolt that uprooted its leadership from Anbar and shrank its presence elsewhere in Iraq.
"I went to see doctors but a new tooth had to be uprooted every week.
Refugees in the state capital, Yola, now outnumber the town's population of 400,000, but aid workers say only a fraction of the 1.5 million uprooted from their homes have been settled in five overflowing official camps.
Other measures destined to be uprooted include a 1536 act to enlarge the churchyard of St Margaret's Church in Southwark, acts to tax excess profits made by businesses during the second world war and the Upper Assam Tea Company's Act 1898.
What is certain is that the latest batch of refugees must be added to the 150,000 civilians already uprooted during five previous rounds of the conflict, which started in 2004.The clashes pit regular government troops, backed by lighter-armed tribal allies, against tribesmen loyal to the Houthi family, a powerful northern clan.
Loathsome as Hamas's ideology is, a movement of this sort cannot be uprooted by an army.
Army bulldozers uprooted a nearby Palestinian olive grove and, on November 18th, the government issued demolition orders for 15 Palestinian houses that line the route from the enclave to Kiryat Arba.
He made a conscious commitment to the young Greek state, and a deeper dedication to its language, yet he was never to lose the sense of being uprooted.
Makeshift checkpoints sprang up, with litter bins, bricks, gates and uprooted lamp-posts used to block cars.During the day these checkpoints are lightly manned, sometimes by one young man armed with a wooden stick, or by a handful of young boys, their skinny limbs browned from the sun.
