The government of Senegal said on Friday that it had shut down some social media platforms as a result of clashes between protesters and security forces a day earlier which it said had left at least nine people dead.Demonstrators had taken to the streets across the West African nation on Thursday shortly after a court acquitted a leading opposition figure, Ousmane Sonko, on charges of rape and making death threats, but convicted him on the lesser charge of corrupting youth.
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