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.
In Somalia, protesters held placards reading, "I am Muslim and I love my Prophet" In Niger, a former French colony, hundreds of demonstrators gathered at Niamey's grand mosque, shouting "God is Great" in Arabic.
Agence France-Presse news agency says others set fire to two churches - similar to Friday's demonstration in Zinder where protesters also raided shops that were run by Christians.
The French cultural centre in Zinder also came under attack.
The centre's director, Kaoumi Bawa, said an angry crowd of around 50 people had smashed the building's door and set fire to the cafeteria, library and offices.
Fresh Charlie Hebdo protest in Niger
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