In late November, both Senegal and Chad – independently of one another – moved to profoundly alter their longstanding ...
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday said that France should close all its army bases in the country, ...
The mass slaying of West African soldiers by colonial forces at the end of World War II in Senegal remains shrouded in ...
On Dec. 1, 1944, likely hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were killed by the French ...
On 1 December 1944, more than 400 ‘tirailleurs’ (Senegalese riflemen) were killed by French colonial troops. Although ...
Like Equatorial Guinea’s Baltasar Ebang Engonga, many of Africa’s leading political figures have been caught up in sex ...
In an interview with Le Monde, the Senegalese president, an advocate of sovereigntist policy, discusses the 1944 Thiaroye massacre and the relationship he intends to forge with France, whose influence ...
This year has been an "annus horribilis" for those governments in sub-Saharan Africa that have had to face voters at the ...
African nations are rewriting the rules of mining, driven by rising "resource nationalism" and a push for greater local ...
(AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — ...
On Monday, Jean-Marie Bockel, Mr Macron’s special envoy for Africa, handed him a report on reshaping France’s military ...