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

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

Senegal commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre on Sunday, honouring the African riflemen killed by French ...

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

Commemoration prompts renewed calls for investigation into the killing of African soldiers by the French army in 1944.

The mass slaying of West African soldiers by colonial forces at the end of World War II in Senegal remains shrouded in secrecy. But Senegal’s new government won’t abide the mystery.

Senegal on Sunday commemorated 80 years since the killing of dozens of African troops by French forces that the former ...

As Senegal marks the 80th anniversary of the massacre, calls for accountability from France grow louder amid unresolved ...

Senegal on Sunday (December 1) commemorated the 80th anniversary of a massacre of African soldiers who fought for France ...

France has for the first time acknowledged that its soldiers carried out a "massacre" in Senegal in which dozens – perhaps ...

DAKAR, Senegal — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army in 1944 as a massacre in a letter addressed to ...

Former French president Francois Hollande ended years of denial over the massacre and vowed in 2014 to return to Senegal a copy of all official documents relating to it -- a promise only ...