The Acra camp shelters some 20, 000 people in makeshift tents and shacks on Delmas Avenue, a main thoroughfare in Port-au-Prince.

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Now the roads from here, and this is a major city in northern Iraq, are lined with tents, and these are makeshift tents with sometimes 10 children huddled underneath.

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Within weeks new security measures had been imposed at Heathrow after a serious terrorist threat, and as security clearance slowed to a crawl, thousands of frustrated travellers were soon sweltering in makeshift tents erected in car parks.

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Sleeping in makeshift tents?

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They seem prepared for a long stay, setting up a makeshift hospital and erecting tents.

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Many are forced to live in tents or makeshift shelters that provide no refuge from the most severe storms in two decades.

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The roughly 1, 300 students now take classes at a makeshift school made up of tents provided by UNICEF.

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Nearly 200, 000 people are in makeshift camps, mainly of tents, at lower altitudes.

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