On Sunday night, gunmen attacked an Ethiopian convoy, setting off an intense hourlong firefight in one of Mogadishu's ramshackle neighborhoods.

Las Americas is housed in a ramshackle building in a ramshackle neighborhood in El Paso, one of the country's poorest cities.

The blaze began shortly before 6 P.M. at 12 Liberty Court in a small, somewhat ramshackle residential neighborhood near downtown Hempstead.

The university is one of the four institutions of higher education in the city's core that 12 years ago began discussing turning the ramshackle neighborhood in their backyard into a university-related science park.

Nearly 20 years after the first casino opened here, the gambling industry is beginning to make good on one of its promises - to rebuild ramshackle urban neighborhoods, The Associated Press reported.

After six years in America, her list of accomplishments would be the envy of most everyone in the ramshackle neighborhood where she grew up.

If you're up to the task, it's possible to have a conversation consisting entirely of cricketers' names with the boys from the ramshackle Muslim neighborhoods nearby who loiter on the steps.

AS on any other day, it will be a bustling Mother's Day at the modest two-story house here on Joline Street in a ramshackle neighborhood.

Bands of street kids roam ramshackle neighborhoods, swinging iron bars and lengths of wood, and set up roadside checkpoints to shake down drivers.

Some of his most loyal supporters live in ramshackle neighborhoods where trash collection is sporadic, the police do not come when called and crack dealers rule the streets.