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

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

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

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

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