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 investigation into the killing of African soldiers by the French army in 1944.
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for the first time recognized the killing of West African ...
Senegal's new president, Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, has expressed concern over the presence of the French military in his ...
Bassirou Diomaye Faye's statement comes ahead of Thiaroye massacre anniversary when French troops killed hundreds of African ...
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday said that France should close all its army bases in the country, ...
The West Africans were members of the unit called “Tirailleurs Sénégalais,” a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army ...
On that day in 1944, at least 35 Tirailleurs – members of a colonial infantry unit from Senegal who served in the French army – were gunned down by French forces for demanding their pay after ...
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 ...
THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP) — Biram Senghor regularly ... World War II but were likely killed on Dec. 1, 1944, by the French army after demanding unpaid wages. In this cemetery, where they ...