NAIROBI (Reuters) - Gunmen wearing police and army uniforms killed three people and injured three others at a bar in a heavily guarded neighbourhood of Burundi's biggest city Bujumbura late on Friday, police and residents said.

BAMAKO (Reuters) - At least 53 soldiers and one civilian were killed in a militant attack on a military post in northern Mali on Friday, the government said.

BLANTYRE, Malawi (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Malawi's constitutional court has suspended its requirement that lawyers and judges wear traditional white wigs and black robes in the courtroom as an early season heatwave sweeps the southern African nation.

ALGIERS (Reuters) - More than 100,000 Algerians, double the number attending recent weekly protests, marched on Friday to demand a purge of the ruling hierarchy and an end to military involvement in politics.