#CharlieHebdo: Niger Protesters Set Churches On Fire (Photos)
At least two churches have been set on fire in the capital of Niger amid fresh protests against French magazine Charlie Hebdo’s cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad,BBC reports. Saturday’s protests began outside Niamey’s grand mosque with police using tear gas a day after at least four were killed in the second city of Zinder. The French embassy had warned its citizens to stay indoors before now. Last week, Islamist gunmen killed 12 people at the magazine’s Paris office. Eight of them were journalists, with subsequent attacks in Paris, which killed another five people, four at a Jewish supermarket. The cover of the magazine’s latest edition, published after the attack, featured a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad weeping while holding a sign saying “I am Charlie”. Seven million copies of the edition are being printed in view of extraordinary demand, distributors announced on Saturday. The magazine’s print run before the attack was 60,000...