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Mali's private press, radio and television carried out a one-day strike on Tuesday to protest at attacks on journalists critical of soldiers behind a coup in March and who still hold sway in the capital of the West African state.
The March coup emboldened Tuareg-led rebels to seize control of the northern two-thirds of Mali. However they have since been sidelined by heavily armed al Qaeda-linked Islamists who - to the alarm of global security experts - now control the zone.
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