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Thousands take to the streets of Niamey, the Nigerien capital, to demand the removal of French troops from the country. Niger has braced for a weekend of planned anti-French rallies as tensions mount between the west African countries new military rulers and its traditional European ally. France has around 1,500 troops in Niger, many of them stationed at an airbase near the capital, deployed to help fight jihadist insurgency. IMAGES
Tensions between police and protesters escalates as demonstrators gather in the Paris suburb of Bobigny after a police investigation concluded that the anal rape of a young black man by an officer was an accident. The conclusion came one week after the man, identified as Theo, was arrested in Aulnay-sous-Bois. IMAGES
Protesters in the capital of former French African colony Niger burn two churches and torch police cars, in the second day of violent anti-Charlie Hebdo protests. Mana Rabiee reports.
Violence breaks out in Niger's capital Niamey during protests against French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Dozens of protesters holding signs critical of the Kremlin demonstrate outside the Russian embassy in Paris, heeding opposition calls to demonstrate against President Vladimir Putin on the last day of the country's presidential vote. Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who lives in exile in France after protesting the offensive in Ukraine on Russian state TV, is in attendance, telling AFP they want to "to show all the world we are against Putin." IMAGES
"This constitutional revision will make this tragedy irreversible for the weakest members of society," says Marie-Lys Pellissier, spokesperson for the "March for Life", at an anti-abortion rights demonstration of about fifty activists near Port-Royal as the Senate prepared to vote on enshrining abortion in the Constitution. IMAGES