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Mali president resigns after detention by military, deepening crisis

Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (pictured) resigned on Tuesday and dissolved parliament hours after mutinying soldiers detained him at gunpoint, plunging a country already facing a jihadist insurgency and mass protests deeper into crisis.

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