IRIN: The kids were on break. Some were playing football on a dust-filled pitch. Some just stood in small groups chatting. Others clustered under the only two shade trees that have survived the unscrupulous hands of vandals. There were no dragon flies to announce the advent of the dry season. Neither were there praying-mantises to frighten the schoolchildren nor grasshoppers hopping in the grass. The weather in Tiko though, was very friendly, thanks to an early morning shower next door in …