MADAGASCAN CHILDREN PLAY IN THE STREETS OF THE ISLANDS CAPITAL ANTANANARIVO, 2002-06-28 (photo)

A child plays with broken dolls in Ampefiloha, one of the poorest districts in the Madagascan capital, stronghold of one the island's two rivals for the presidency, Marc Ravalomanana, June 28, 2002. The six month leadership crisis between Ravalomanana and veteran ruler Didier Ratsiraka has battered the economy in a country which was already one of the poorest in the world. The World Bank says it is the poor who have been worst affected, struggling to afford food and find work. The barricades have now come down, and Ravalomanana says a United States decision to lift a freeze on Madagascan foreign assets in the Federal Reserve will enable him to start trying to redress the problems the crisis has left in its wake.REUTERS/Mike Hutchings REUTERS MH/