On Dec. 1, 1944, hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were likely killed by the French ...
Commemoration prompts renewed calls for an investigation into the killing of African soldiers by the French army in 1944.
France's President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army ...
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday said that France should close all its army bases in the country, ...
Senegal commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre on Sunday, honouring the African riflemen killed by French ...
Historians estimate hundreds of West African soldiers who fought for France were killed in 1944 by the French army after they ...
Bassirou Diomaye Faye's statement comes ahead of Thiaroye massacre anniversary when French troops killed hundreds of African ...
As Senegal marks the 80th anniversary of the massacre, calls for accountability from France grow louder amid unresolved ...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — France’s President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army in 1944 as a massacre. The recognition came ...
central Senegal. An only child, he was "not yet weaned" when the war broke out in 1939 and his father was drafted into the French army in September 1940. "I want my father to be compensated.