Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday said that France should close all its army bases in the country, ...

African soldiers who fought for France during World War Two were gunned down by French troops for demanding fair treatment ...

Visiting during the Biennale reminded me of what makes Senegal truly special: its ability to bring people together. The sense ...

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

Despite the withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali from its previous regional bloc, the Economic Community of West ...

The closing doors in Africa are more than a rejection of France. They are a declaration by a continent determined to define ...

Senegal recently marked the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre, a dark and often overlooked episode in the nation’s colonial history ...

On Dec. 1, 1944, hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were likely killed by the French ...

A cascade of anti-French sentiment continues to sweep across the belt of the Sahel in Africa: joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, Chad and Senegal demanded in November that the French government ...

In an interview with Le Monde, the Senegalese president, an advocate of sovereigntist policy, discusses the 1944 Thiaroye massacre and the relationship he intends to forge with France, whose influence ...

Senegal and the self-declared republic of Somaliland also saw ... with the government’s candidate winning only 36% of the ...

“The authorities' goal behind the major commemorations is to make Thiaroye part of Senegal’s national story,” says Babacar ...