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

On December 1, Senegal marks the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre. On that day in 1944, at least 35 Tirailleurs – ...

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

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

In recent days, international politics have once again escalated against the backdrop of Chad and Senegal's decision to break ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army ...

Chad's announcement that it is breaking off its defense agreement with Paris, followed by Senegal's declaration that it plans ...

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

Senegal's new president, Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, has expressed concern over the presence of the French military in his ...

"After 66 years since the independence of the Republic of Chad, it is time for Chad to assert its full sovereignty, and to ...

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye told AFP Thursday that France should close its military bases in the West African state as it prepared to mark the 80th anniversary of a notorious colonial ...

The middle school students in Senegal listened quietly one afternoon this past week as their history teacher told a story ...