Malaria is truly a disease of poverty — afflicting primarily the poor who tend to live in malaria-prone rural areas in poorly-constructed dwellings that offer few, if any, barriers against mosquitoes.
The Cockburn Association, a conservation watchdog, did not formally object to the development at the time but noted the "loss of a perfectly adequate and functional, recently-constructed dwelling from the city's housing stock and we regret and question the sustainability aspects of this demolition".
They heard French bombs and rebel bullets ricocheting around the mud-walled dwellings.
Madhnapar, home to 90 families, is a place of mud-brick dwellings surrounded by open fields and scum-laden ponds.
Two hundred yards down the road, a Chadian family lives in a small cluster of tukuls, mud-brick dwellings with conical thatched roofs.
Almost all the traditional, mud-walled dwellings around Guli's home had been razed as part of a government plan to build new housing that began in early 2009.
Kangori, in Sar-i-Pol Sar-i-Pol Sar-i-Pol Provincee of mud-walled dwellisgs that seemodestlend seamlessly into the parched, unyielding earth.
While talking with a Kurdish instructor, I remarked on the dozens of abandoned mud-mortar dwellings scattered throughout the camp, which appeared to have once been a village.
Toward the center is the ancient part of town, where narrow alleyways and crumbling mud brick dwellings have long ago lost their luster.
These ranged from the conventional black tents of the Bedouin and mud-brick dwellings of agrarian villages to the lofty, ornate townhouses found in urban centres along the coast.
A decade later, even children have cellphones, and villagers who sold farmland to developers are tearing down their mud-brick dwellings in favor of multistory homes with balconies and deluxe kitchens.
