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14 people accused of helping jihadist gunmen storm the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket went on trial on Wednesday, five years after three days of terror sent shock waves through France
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The Paris attackers were known fanatics who evaded police surveillance.
Many complain of Western bias, but others say citizens in countries like Nigeria should take responsibility for drawing the world’s attention.
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The Danish editor who commissioned the Mohammed cartoons that triggered deadly protests a decade ago says he’s leaving the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.
‘Charlie’ represents a hierarchy of Western ideals to which not everyone subscribes.
The continent’s leaders have not shown enough commitment to combating the scourge.
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Ending economic and political alienation can bring enlightenment to disaffected Muslims.
Extremists – aka cartoonists – poured gunpowder over a simmering racist fire.
The magazine has shown in its defiant "survivor" edition that it remains unbowed, printing five million copies despite a readership of just 60 000.
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Sigolène Vinson survived the attack on the magazine and has given a chilling account of how one of the terrorist gunmen spared her life.
We saw that African lives were less important than those of Europeans. Yet what have we done as Africans for the world to see that we value our own?
The terrorist organisation says it was responsible for the attack that saw 17 people killed, as the latest edition of the satirical weekly sold out.
The Charlie Hebdo attack was a result of our unwillingness and inability to understand and appreciate the beliefs of others, writes Alleyn Diesel.
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‘Charlie Hebdo’ is to release its latest edition with a cartoon depicting the Islamic prophet holding a placard saying "Je suis Charlie".
A Chinese state-owned newspaper says the West is facing the consequences for slavery and colonialism, following the attack on "Charlie Hebdo".
The killings at ‘Charlie Hebdo’ trumped the deaths in Baga because the Western world doesn’t know how to make sense of Africa, writes Verashni Pillay.
There have been calls for the world to support those affected by Boko Haram in Nigeria, as they supported France after the attack on ‘Charlie Hebdo’.
Unlikely scenes at a historic march in Paris against terrorism as Palestine’s Mahmoud Abbas and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu march together.
South Africa’s Muslim Judicial Council said they condemn the attacks carried out in France, but there are limits to freedom of expression.
Official sources say that two people were killed and more – at least five – taken hostage by a gunman at a grocery store in Paris.
Amid protests against immigration in Germany, Islamophobia and anti-immigration sentiment could rise in Europe, following the attack on Charlie Hebdo.
Shots were fired during a car chase and at least one hostage taken in Paris as the search for the gunmen who attacked the paper’s officers heightened.
There have been two more attacks in France, including a shootout at police and an explosion near a mosque.
French security forces are searching for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at a French magazine, a third suspect is in police custody.
Freedom of speech, unlike unquestionable laws of religion, involves our ever-fluid interpretations.
South African satirists have been wryly amused by the reactions of those depicted in Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons.
The French cartoonists from Charlie Hebdo may have had their lives stolen, but their courage will remain immortal.
France fears further attacks as police hunt for the three men who killed 12 people at the magazine known for lampooning the Prophet Muhammad.
Cartoonist Zapiro says the shootings at Charlie Hebdo were not only an attack on the media, but on French society and secular societies more broadly.
Gunmen stormed the offices of a French satirical weekly publication on Wednesday, leaving 12 dead and more seriously injured.