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 November, Faye asked Paris to remove about 350 French soldiers stationed there, in effect ending a decades-long defence pact and continuing a trend in West Africa, where nations are downgrading ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2020, historian Raphaelle Branche wrote a book in which she interviewed relatives of French soldiers mobilised during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. The shame they felt kept them silent.

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 ...

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.