Italian nuns die in Burundi attack

Two more people die after Sunday's attack on a church near the Kenyan port of Mombasa, officials say, taking the total number of deaths to six.

Two UN peacekeepers are killed and seven injured in a suicide attack on a UN patrol base in northern Mali.

A soldier in Somalia avenges the killing of his wife - also a soldier - by shooting dead five women related to militant Islamists, an official says.

Thirty people are reportedly killed and several hurt in northern Nigeria, in an attack blamed by police on gunmen from the Fulani community.

Gunmen executed nine people in Burundi’s capital hours before police launched house-to-house searches for weapons on Sunday, amid international fears of fresh bloodletting in the central African nation.

The BBC's Karen Allen sees evidence of retaliatory attacks in Burundi, aimed at those accused of being behind last week's failed coup attempt.

>Burundi police on Tuesday arrested the head of a key radio station close to the opposition in connection with the murder of three Italian nuns after broadcasting an alleged confession of the killer.

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