French President Emmanuel Macron has acknowledged in a letter to Senegalese President Bassirou Diyomaye that the killing of ...

Those who died were part of the Tirailleurs Senegalais unit, recruited at the start of World War Two to help defend France, ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

In 1945, France still had the world’s second-largest colonial empire, covering almost one-tenth of the Earth’s surface.

French government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye ... for economic reforms he put in place as France expanded its colonial empire overseas. In the 1680s, he helped write the Code Noir on the orders ...