Next, Romesha and his soldiers ran to a small mud hut near the front gate.

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Troops converged on a two-room mud hut squatting between two farmhouses with sheep penned nearby.

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My father grew up in a mud hut in Tamil Nadu, the youngest of 11 children, 9 of whom survived childhood.

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In Lesotho, in a hillside village beset by famine, an old man named Elliot tugged at Fritz's sleeve and took him to see his home, a tiny mud hut.

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She has held her own in palaces and held the hands of hungry children in mud-hut villages, pursuing an agenda that empowers women, children, the poor and helpless.

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