On Dec. 1, 1944, hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were likely killed by the French ...

Commemoration prompts renewed calls for an investigation into the killing of African soldiers by the French army in 1944.

Senegal's new president, Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, has expressed concern over the presence of the French military in his ...

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France's President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army ...

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 ...

France honours WWII colonial troops shot dead by French army in Senegal This year's commemorations have been prepared ...

THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal — Biram Senghor regularly pays ... World War II but were likely killed on Dec. 1, 1944, by the French army after demanding unpaid wages. In this cemetery, where they ...

Hundreds of West African soldiers who fought for France during World War II were likely killed by the French army on Dec. 1, 1944, after demanding unpaid wages. THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP ...

“(French President Emmanuel ... you will have a hard time conceiving that another army — of China, Russia, Senegal, or any other country — could have a military base in France.” ...

Senegal has commemorated the 80th anniversary of a colonial-era massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War II and were shot by French soldiers in 1944 for demanding fair ...