DHAKA: Police in Niger’s capital have fired tear gas at a new protest against French magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’ over a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.

Protesters threw stones at police and burned tyres outside Niamey’s grand mosque a day after at least four were killed in the second city of Zinder.

Friday saw protests against the publication across the Muslim world.

Last week, gunmen attacked the magazine’s offices in Paris, killing 12 people, eight of them journalists.

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’.

Protests against the magazine were also seen on Friday in Pakistan, where protests turned violent in Karachi, the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and the Algerian capital, Algiers.

People in Somalia took to the streets on Saturday, reports the BBC.

BDST: 1933 HRS, JAN 17, 2015