1.   Craters filled with mud and putrid sewage cover long stretches of the National Highway that runs past the sprawling slums of Cite Soleil.

2.   Like other urban areas in the developing world, Istanbul is a magnet as people abandon the impoverished countryside for sprawling urban slums.

3.   Politicians converged on a sprawling Nairobi slum on Saturday to try to quell violent ethnic clashes that many Kenyans said were stoked by those very same elected officials.

4.   She grew up barefoot in the sprawling slums outside Managua.

5.   They scrounge for work, build their own houses in sprawling slums, hustle to survive.

6.   At the palace, repeated gunfire could be heard coming from the sprawling Catia slum nearby.

7.   His power base is the sprawling slums built on stilts on swampy ground around Guayaquil.

8.   Looting and rioting continued in Catia, a sprawling Caracas slum.

9.   The exacerbating factor here is a large population of North Africans who spill out of a sprawling slum in Mantes-la-Jolie just over the river.

10.   The sprawling slums have expanded and the decaying roads continue to disintegrate.