1.   As housing types go, shotguns rank not much above straw huts and dirt-floored hovels.

2.   He landed outside Kikwit, a sprawling town of dirt roads and straw huts on the banks of the Kwilu River.

3.   Many now live in straw huts and makeshift tents around the city.

4.   She has gathered with others in a simple mud and straw hut here to talk about their rapes.

5.   The new arrivals have swelled the population of a village of straw huts that has sprung up next to the headquarters for the pipeline project.

6.   There, they have their straw huts.

7.   A lone man on the roof of a straw hut pointed his fingers to his mouth and rubbed his stomach.

8.   Crafts instructor Franck Etienne was asleep early Friday in a straw hut on the beach in this Club Med resort when rockets slammed into the ground near him.

9.   However, many of those who lost their homes will be able to quickly reconstruct the sun-baked mud and straw huts once the weather clears.

10.   Outside town, a woman, her expression blank, collected palm leaves to make a new roof for her mud and straw hut.