A Senegalese man has lodged a complaint against the French state accusing it of concealing the corpse of his colonial soldier ...

The only known descendant of a Senegalese rifleman killed by French forces in the 1944 Thiaroye massacre has filed a legal ...

In response, colonial soldiers fired on them, killing an undetermined number. French authorities at the time tried to bury ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the ...

Colonial soldiers were not allowed to rise up in the ranks of the French army. There were instances of families who refused to join the war effort being relocated into “holding camps,” according to ...

Senegal seeks answers 80 years after French colonial massacre of soldiers. Commemoration prompts renewed calls for an investigation into the killing of African soldiers by the French army in 1944.

In response, colonial soldiers fired on them, killing an undetermined number. French authorities at the time tried to bury the evidence and claimed 35 people were killed. However, scholars ...

The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.

Senegal demands answers as the West African country commemorates a French colonial massacre Biram Senghor, whose father was killed in 1944, holds a phone with a photo of his father, in Rufisque ...

The massacre at Thiaroye took place on 1 December, 1944, when French colonial troops opened fire on West African soldiers who had just returned from Europe, where they had been fighting for France.

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.