It built new concrete and tin-roofed houses to replace homes made of mud.

But outside the windows of this spacious converted chicken pen are broad green rice fields and the tin-roofed houses of a remote farming village.

From across this West African seaport, crowds converge daily on a modest tin-roofed house.

Today the city is crammed with less-than-elegant tin-roofed houses and is a major cantonment for the army.

They also declined to confirm the word - common knowledge on Lower Allen Street - that the little two-story, tin-roofed house had a troubled history.

There they watched the tornado toss the village's many wooden and tin-roofed houses into the air and reduce several larger buildings, including a movie house, to rubble.

He lives in a shaky tin-roofed house that his sister rents, its white paint worn away.

In the tin-roofed houses of the poorer residents, however, traces of the violence were apparent.

Phidim has tin-roofed houses and small concrete buildings.

The next house to go was one of the oldest in the area, the white tin-roofed house where Fidelie Sweezey raised her family.