The president of Niger says at least 10 people have been
killed in two days of violent protests over a French
publication’s cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad.
President Mahamadou Issoufou said that five people died
after demonstrations in the capital city of Niamey on
Saturday. The victims were inside churches and bars that
were set ablaze, he said.
The deaths came after at least five people were killed in the
town of Zinder on Friday after prayer services there.
The violence erupted after the French satirical
weekly Charlie Hebdo published a new cartoon depicting the
Prophet Muhammad. The issue, published on Wednesday,
was the first following a January 7 attack on its
headquarters that left 12 dead.
Police fired tear gas at crowds of stone-throwing youths
who set fire to at least six churches and looted shops in
Niamey on Saturday after authorities banned a meeting
called by local Islamic leaders. A police station was
attacked and at least two police cars burned.
Police sources told Reuters that two charred bodies were
found inside a burned church on the outskirts of Niamey,
while the body of a woman was found in a bar. She was
believed to have been suffocated by tear gas and smoke,
they said.
“They offended our Prophet Muhammad. That’s what we
didn’t like,” protester Amadou Abdoul Ouahab said.
“This is the reason why we have asked Muslims to come,
so that we can explain this to them, but the state refused.
That’s why we’re angry today.”

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someone posted something in france nd u're fighting in ur country...smh...illiterates

Jaycool18:
someone posted something in france nd u're fighting in ur country...smh...illiterates

Do you notice that our Northern brothers have not gone mad

I suspect

BH or Election

Height of stupidity.
Wonder why some people just choose to enslave their selves to religion. If your god feels the act is a mockery of him, why not rise up and strike the offender himself. Why should you be the one to fight his 'battles' for him?

And some idiots wants me to vote in a muslim as my president. God forbid bad thing! ISLAMABAD

What are the protesting about, is it this pic below then this people have lost it.
By the way what those the pic signify

this their weak prophet that they always kill for.
when the time comes we shall see. I can't honour such dead body.

Sunshineluv:
And some idiots wants me to vote in a muslim as my president. God forbid bad thing! ISLAMABAD

don't mind them. only blind bats or those that don't understand this present time will do that.

BlackTechnology:


Do you notice that our Northern brothers have not gone mad

I suspect

BH or Election

ma brother m surprised too

BlackTechnology:


Do you notice that our Northern brothers have not gone mad

I suspect

BH or Election

Unlike in previous cases where we used to have the most violent versions of the riots in northern Nigeria, our brothers are not interested this time around.
Boko haram has taught them a bitter lesson they will never forget.
They nurtured the monster.

Some people are better off dead,except innocent onlookers.