At the end of last month the authorities in the Senegalese capital of Dakar and in N’Djamena in Chad both announced that they ...
Commemoration prompts renewed calls for an investigation into the killing of African soldiers by the French army in 1944.
On Dec. 1, 1944, hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were likely killed by the French ...
Senegal's new president, Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, has expressed concern over the presence of the French military in his ...
France's President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army ...
Bassirou Diomaye Faye's statement comes ahead of Thiaroye massacre anniversary when French troops killed hundreds of African ...
Senegal commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre on Sunday, honouring the African riflemen killed by French ...
As Senegal marks the 80th anniversary of the massacre, calls for accountability from France grow louder amid unresolved ...
Historians estimate hundreds of West African soldiers who fought for France were killed in 1944 by the French army after they ...
Biram Senghor regularly goes to pay his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal’s capital ...
THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP) — Biram Senghor regularly ... during World War II but were killed on Dec. 1, 1944 by the French army after demanding unpaid wages. In this cemetery where they ...