Three missionary nuns have been found murdered in their convent in Burundi, Italian officials said.

Three missionary nuns have been found killed in their convent in Burundi, Italian officials said.

Three missionary nuns have been found killed in their convent in Burundi, Italian officials said.

Mary Robinson has been appointed as UN Special Envoy for the troubled Great Lakes region of Africa.

An official in Burundi says attackers from neighbouring Congo have killed 36 people at a pub in the central African nation.

ATTACKERS in Burundi chopped off the limbs of a 5-year-old albino boy and pulled out his mother’s eye, killing them over the belief that their body parts would bring wealth and success, human rights activists said.

A man killed himself and 16 other people with a grenade in northern Burundi when he was stopped from addressing scores of family members at a welcome home party for his sister, a police spokesman said today.

A powerful earthquake in Lake Tanganyika was felt across east and central Africa today, sending workers in the centre of Nairobi fleeing their offices in panic.

A powerful earthquake hit the Lake Tanganyika area of central Africa today and was felt as far away as the Kenyan coast.

A gun battle between Burundi’s last rebel group and soldiers broke out today on the outskirts of the capital, with gunfire echoing in the city and apparently putting an end to a ceasefire agreement reached earlier this month.

Dozens of unknown assailants attacked a UN refugee camp in western Burundi, shooting and hacking to death at least 150 Congolese refugees, witnesses and local officials said today.

IN the frequently male-dominated environment of the European Union an organisation calling itself Femmes d’Europe can be assumed to be a political one. Most would ask what else would survive?

IN the frequently testosterone-charged environment of the European Union, an organisation calling itself Femmes d’Europe can be assumed to be political. What else would survive? most would ask.

Foreign Affairs Minister Brian Cowen has received a report into the murder of Irish Archbishop Michael Courtney in the central African state of Burundi on December 29.

The Irish archbishop murdered by rebels in the central African State of Burundi will be buried in his hometown of Nenagh, Co Tipperary, today.

THE funeral Mass of Archbishop Michael Courtney, the murdered papal nuncio to the central African state of Burundi, takes place in his home town of Nenagh, Co Tipperary, today.

The body of Archbishop Michael Courtney, the Pope’s Ambassador gunned down in a hail of bullets in Burundi, was received back home in Ireland today.

The Vatican expressed “deep sorrow and dismay” today over the killing of Tipperary native Archbishop Michael Courtney.

THE Pope’s representative in Burundi, an Irishman, was shot dead in an ambush yesterday.

Forty-seven people have been killed as a truck loaded with UN food relief collided with a speeding bus in Uganda.

Two speeding minibuses travelling on a windy road collided in northern Burundi, killing 15 people and injuring at least 10 others, police said today.

A MISSILE attack on a passenger plane is something the aviation industry has long feared, experts said yesterday.

A missile attack on a passenger plane is something the aviation industry has long feared, experts said today.

More than 500 rebel troops are reported to have been killed in fighting in Burundi.

Hutu rebels in the African nation of Burundi have kidnapped 80 boys aged between 13 and 15 during a raid on three schools in the east of the country.

Gunfire and grenade blasts reverberated through Burundi’s capital overnight when a group of soldiers mutinied and attempted to stage a coup.

A group of junior army officers who attempted a coup to oppose Burundi President Pierre Buyoya’s negotiations with Hutu rebels surrendered today, the defence ministry said.