You have downloaded from our own correspondent. This edition is the latest one broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

And here to introduce it is Kate A.D.

Today, mixed feelings as schools reopen in Pashawa after the Taliban massacre there last month.

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faced by cyclists in Burundi.

Pupils and teachers have returned to a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar,

where more than 150 people died in a Taliban attack in December, most of them children.

Our Pakistan correspondent Shima Kaleel caught up with a family sending their children back to school, and another who are mourning those they lost.

16 year old Josefa Aftab liked watches.

His mother and Aleib showed me at least six.

This was his favorite, she said, handing me a sports watch with a black rubber wristband.

It's been weeks now since Hoseifa has worn any of his watches.

He was killed in the Taliban massacre at the Army Public School in Pishower, and was buried

in his uniform.

He had nice handwriting, look, his mother told me. He liked to split his

mother told me. He liked to split his study notebooks into different subjects.

He was very good at maths and wanted to become a scientist. He got that from me, she said, and started to cry.

Andaleeb is a chemistry teacher at the school. She was there during the attack and knew her son was in the auditorium when Minneton started shooting.

There was a bit of hope in my heart that he'd escaped with the other boys, she said.

She found out what had happened to her son after the army came in

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