Scores killed in Nigeria attack

At least 59 people are reported to have been killed in the raid by jihadist militants on Tuesday.

The Ugandan army says 41 gunmen and 17 police and civilians were killed when militants attacked police stations and military barracks.

At least 48 people are killed and around 23,000 forced from their homes by heavy flooding in Malawi, the country's leader says.

>Three people were killed and more than 80 injured in near-simultaneous explosions in Nairobi on Sunday. The blasts targeted buses on the Thika Superhighway and were about seven minutes apart.

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About 500 children are missing from a Nigerian town recaptured from militant Islamist group Boko Haram, a former resident tells the BBC.

Two bomb attacks on the central Nigerian city of Jos have left at least 44 people dead, the authorities say.

A Somali MP is shot dead in the capital Mogadishu in an attack by suspected Islamists, one of a number of violent incidents in the war-torn country.

Attack on the home of a government minister by suspected Islamist militants leaves four policemen dead, officials say.