Nepal's former chief justice Sushila Karki has been chosen as the country's interim leader, said an official from the Nepalese president's office, after violent anti-corruption protests forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to resign this week.

Karki, 73, the only woman to have held the post of chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal, will take oath on Friday, Archana Khadka Adhikari, information officer at the president's office, said.

The Himalayan nation's worst upheaval in years, which killed 51 people this week and injured more than 1,300 as police fought to control crowds, was sparked by a social media ban, now rolled back. The violence subsided only after Oli resigned.

Wedged between India and China, Nepal has grappled with political and economic instability since the aboli

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