James Pogue is a journalist with an extraordinary range. He has reported from Mauritania and the Central African Republic, ...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided the Middle East between the British and French, has led to an uneasy rumbling in the ...

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

A no-confidence motion in the French National Assembly has ousted the government led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier. But ...

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

The West Africans were members of the unit called “Tirailleurs Sénégalais,” a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army that fought in both World Wars. According to historians ...

Something is terribly wrong when Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is making continuous concessions to Azerbaijan, while the French ambassador to Armenia, Olivier Decottignies, is defending ...

Chad, a former African colony of France, has for decades been central to its military operations in Africa, but it is ...

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

The West Africans were members of the unit called “Tirailleurs Sénégalais,” a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army that fought in both World Wars. According to historians ...

Senegal has commemorated the 80th anniversary of a colonial-era massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War II and were shot by French soldiers in 1944 for demanding fair ...