In a vibrant and historic European capital, makeshift morgues lined the pavements and government snipers fired at protesters trying to bring the injured to safety.
To prevent students from gathering in protest, the government repeatedly closed the main campus and began busing undergraduates to makeshift campuses outside the capital.
CAIRO — Day after day, hundreds of workers from all over Egypt have staged demonstrations and sit-ins outside Parliament, turning sidewalks in the heart of the capital into makeshift camps and confounding government efforts to bring an end to the protests.
Four protesters were killed and 231 wounded when riot police drove activists from a makeshift camp in Bahrain's capital Manama on Thursday.
Shacks have popped up in the most precarious of spaces, and in slums such as Boa Vista, near the port, ancient piles of garbage are composting in the streams that run between the makeshift shelters.Johannesburg, South Africa's business capital, is facing similar problems.
Paris police have dismantled two makeshift camps in the French capital, moving hundreds of migrants to shelters in the city and the surrounding area in the process.
Two days later, thousands of protesters once again thronged the centre of Port-au-Prince, the capital, dancing around a makeshift fire, bellowing voodoo chants and playing drums and trumpets, before police dispersed them with tear-gas.
MOPTI, Mali — Hundreds of young men are stuffed into makeshift training camps near this provincial capital, arising at 4 a.m. for physical exercises and simulated hand-to-hand combat in preparation for the day when they can free their north Mali homeland from the radical Islamists whose harsh rule has driven tens of thousands of frightened, desperate civilians to flee the country.
So the country, where an estimated 634,000 survivors of the quake still live in makeshift settlements in and around the capital, remains without a government.
And like the Bonus Marchers, the Poor People's Campaign also planned to descend on the nation's capital and occupy a makeshift "city" until its demands were met.
