NAIROBI (Reuters) -Tanzania’s president promised on Friday to investigate violence during last month’s elections and offered condolences to bereaved families, in her most public acknowledgement to date of the impact of the clashes.

Samia Suluhu Hassan said the state would set up a commission and work towards “reconciliation and peace”. There was no immediate reaction from the main opposition party, CHADEMA, which has said security forces killed more than 1,000 people.

The U.N. said this week it believes hundreds were killed during the protests, which were driven by the exclusion of the two leading opposition candidates and what activists called a crackdown on dissent – charges dismissed by the government.

In her first address to parliament since winning the October 29 election with almo

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