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Mali leader pledges investigation after protest turns violent

Under pressure: Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, pictured at a Sahel summit in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott on June 30. [AFP]

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said he had launched an investigation into violence committed during a mass anti-government protest on Friday, which saw at least one person killed and 20 wounded.

Thousands initially rallied in the capital city Bamako to demand that Keita resign over a long-running jihadist conflict, economic woes and perceived government corruption in the fragile West African state.

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