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Mali president tries to calm unrest with court dissolution

Protesters run from riot police after erecting barricades to block the Martyrs Bridge in Bamako on Saturday. [AFP]

Mali's embattled president announced the dissolution of the constitutional court in an attempt to calm the major civil unrest gripping the vulnerable African country, as more opposition leaders were arrested.

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