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A TikTok influencer accused of posting videos supporting Mali’s army has been killed by suspected jihadists, according to authorities in the West African nation.

“The young TikTok user Mariame Cissé was abducted by armed men on Friday while she was at the weekly market in Echel … The following day, at dusk, the same men brought her back to Independence Square in Tonka and executed her in front of a crowd,” Yehia Tandina, the mayor of Timbuktu, told The Associated Press.

It comes as a well-armed jihadist group affiliated with al Qaeda is closing in on Bamako, the capital . The country’s military junta and their Russian partners are struggling to counter the jihadis, who now hold sway in many parts of the huge Sahelian country.

The mayor

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