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A gendarme patrols near a polling station in the Anosy district of Antananarivo on October 24, 2013. Poverty-wracked Madagascar votes on october 25 in long-delayed elections expected to restore democracy and pull the vanilla-rich country out of the rut it sunk into after a 2009 coup. With 33 candidates on the ballot paper and no clear favourite, chances of a first-round winner appear slim, raising the possibility of a run-off in eight weeks' time. Main political players, including strongman Andry Rajoelina and the man he toppled in March 2009, Marc Ravalomanana -- have been barred from the election to avoid their long-running political wrangling from jeopardising the vote.
People prepare to vote at a polling station in Tamatave, on the eastern coast of Madagascar, on October 25, 2013. Madagascar voted in crunch elections on October 25 to restore democracy after a 2009 coup plunged the island nation into crisis, with isolated incidents of violence leaving one dead. A senior government official was killed and a polling station torched as voters sought to end a crisis which has crippled the country since strongman Andry Rajoelina, 39, ousted Marc Ravalomanana four years ago.
European Union chief observer Maria Muniz de Urquiza (R) stands next to a private aeroplane as she goes to inspect a polling station on October 25, 2013 in Tamatave, on the eastern coast of Madagascar. Madagascar voted in crunch elections on October 25 to restore democracy after a 2009 coup plunged the island nation into crisis, with isolated incidents of violence leaving one dead. A senior government official was killed and a polling station torched as voters sought to end a crisis which has crippled the country since strongman Andry Rajoelina, 39, ousted Marc Ravalomanana four years ago.
Supporters of presidential candidate Robinson Jean Louis cheer arounf his car during the last campaign rally on October 23, 2013 in Antananarivo ahead of the presidential elections on October 25, 2013. Thirty-three candidates are running in a poll that is meant to end a four-year political crisis on the Indian Ocean island sparked when strongman Andry Rajoelina ousted then-president Marc Ravalomanana in a coup. But supporters are divided over new candidates after Rajoelina and Ravalomanana's wife Lalao, along with a few others, were barred from running under international pressure. After the presidential polls, a parliamentary vote will follow on December 20, along with a second presidential round if the October election does not deliver an outright winner. Madagascar votes on October 25 in long-delayed elections meant to pull the island nation out of a devastating political crisis that plunged millions into misery after the 2009 coup.
A man named Solo collects the ashes on October 6, 2013 of the Malagasy man who was burned on October 3 by a mob. He says that he was his young brother. Piles of ash marked the spots on Nosy Be where a local man, a French national and a man with dual Italian and French nationality were burned by a furious mob. The three were suspected of killing an eight year old local boy and mutilating his corpse, sparking an orgy of violence that rocked this tropical Indian Ocean heaven.
Police patrol on October 5, 2013 in Hell-Ville on Nosy-Be where a mob lynched on October 3 a local man suspected of killing a boy for his organs. Piles of ash marked the spots on Nosy Be where a local man, a French national and a man with dual Italian and French nationality were burned by a furious mob. The three were suspected of killing an eight year old local boy and mutilating his corpse, sparking an orgy of violence that rocked this tropical Indian Ocean heaven.
Men commune with themselves on October 7, 2013 in Nosy-Be at the grave of the eight-year-old boy whose the body was found at Ambatolaoka beach on October 3, 2013. Madagascar police on Monday held 35 suspects in connection with the mob lynching of two Europeans and a local man accused of killing a young boy on a tourist island.
A man lies on the ground after being killed by a bomb blast, on September 16, 2013 in Antananarivo. An assortment of weapons was seized by police at the site of the explosion in the city centre area known as Ambondrona, including a pistol, a sword, ammunition, and material used to make explosives. "The bomb exploded in a house when the victim was working on it" the police commander for Antananarivo, Colonel Florens Rakotomahanina said".
Some of about 1,500 people displaced after cyclone Haruna lashed the Indian Ocean island three weeks ago live in tents on March 12, 2013 at camp set up in the Tulear military camp. The tents house 10 persons, and the displaced complain about lack of food and medecine at the camp. The February 22 storm, which killed 26 people and affected nearly 40,000 more, forced thousands of people to cram into emergency camps or battle it out at home in devastated villages. Now villagers have to eat grasshoppers -- occasionally grilled in parts of the country -- which are cooked with a little water and salt.