Charlie Hebdo: 'Four dead' in Niger protest

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Source: BBC

At least four people have been killed in violent protests against French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Niger's second city of Zinder, officials say.

A number of churches and the French cultural centre were among several buildings raided and set alight.

Friday saw protests across the Muslim world over the magazine's publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.

It comes more than a week after gunmen carried out a massacre at the French magazine's offices in Paris.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30853305

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1. Police fire tear gas at fresh Charlie Hebdo protest in Niger: AFP

Police fire tear gas at fresh Charlie Hebdo protest in Niger: AFP

Police on Saturday fired tear gas at a fresh demonstration in Niger against French weekly Charlie Hebdo's publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed, according to an AFP reporter on the scene.

At least 1,000 youths assembled at the grand mosque in the capital Niamey, some of them throwing rocks at police, a day after protests against Charlie Hebdo in the country's second city of Zinder left four dead and 45 injured.

https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/police-fire-tear-gas-fresh-charlie-hebdo-protest-094639593.html

#BREAKING: At least two churches burned in Niger as Charlie Hebdo protests rage on: AFP

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/556418688480735232

#BREAKING: France tells citizens in riot-hit Niger to stay indoors

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/556428216022618113

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2. Niger is 99 percent Muslim

Christians make up less than one half of one percent of the population.