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

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

African soldiers who fought for France during World War Two were gunned down by French troops for demanding fair treatment ...

In late November, both Senegal and Chad – independently of one another – moved to profoundly alter their longstanding ...

Between 35 and 400 West African soldiers who fought for the French Army in the second World War were killed on Dec. 1, 1944 ...

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

Senegal on Sunday commemorated 80 years since the killing of scores of African troops by French forces that the former colonial master acknowledged this week had been a "massacre". Heads of state ...

In 2014, French President Francois Hollande handed over the European nation’s archives on Thiaroye to Macky Sall, then-president of Senegal. But historians say that key documents, including ones ...

1, 1944 by the French army after demanding unpaid wages. In this cemetery where they are supposedly buried, all the graves are anonymous and the exact location of the remains is unknown, as is the ...