This commemoration renews demands for France to accept responsibility, amidst its dwindling influence in its former colonies.

Senegal on Sunday commemorated the 80th anniversary of a massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War ...

The mass slaying of West African soldiers by colonial forces at the end of World War II in Senegal remains shrouded in ...

December is regarded by many Hungarians as a day of commemoration and mourning because of Transylvania. Meanwhile, Romanians ...

Between 35 and 400 West African soldiers who fought for the French Army in the second World War were killed on Dec. 1, 1944 ...

Senegal marked the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre, urging France to apologize and investigate the 1944 killing of ...

France has lost not only three Francophone West African countries, it has also lost its influence in Chad, where that country ...

Biram Senghor regularly goes to pay his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal’s capital ...

On Thursday night, France’s foreign minister left Chad confident about its ongoing military relationship with its last ...

The decision by Chad is another blow to what remained of France’s military influence in the troubled stretch of countries ...

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