DODOMA, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzania’s president announced on Friday that her administration has formed an inquiry commission to probe killings that occurred during election protests last month, and said she had ordered the release of some of the arrested youths.

During her first parliamentary address since the election, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said Friday that the commission would look into issues that led to the unrest and help inform the reconciliation and peace efforts the government was planning to undertake. The U.N. human rights chief, Volker Türk, had called for a probe into the killings and the alleged concealing of evidence.

Young people in Tanzania began demonstrating on election day on Oct. 29 to protest the exclusion of presidential candidates from the two main opposition

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