1) Area with crude dwellings 2) Slum 3) Slum area 1) Slum 
(from the article `Zambia`) Controversy swirled in March when Mwanawasa announced that there would be a nationwide demolition of illegal shantytowns that had sprouted up around ... ...news that Zimbabwe had been reelected to the UN Human Rights Commission. They were angered too when on May 19 the government launched a cleanup ... ......
[n] - a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties
noun a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties