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.
Senegal's new president, Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, has expressed concern over the presence of the French military in his ...
France's President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army ...
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 DAKAR, Senegal -- French President Emmanuel ...
THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP) — Biram Senghor regularly ... World War II but were likely killed on Dec. 1, 1944, by the French army after demanding unpaid wages. In this cemetery, where they ...
DAKAR, Senegal — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army in 1944 as a massacre in a letter addressed to ...
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.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the president of Senegal, at the presidential palace ... according to some historians – were killed by the French army, in this camp on the outskirts of Dakar, for ...
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 ...
France honours WWII colonial troops shot dead by French army in Senegal This year's commemorations have been prepared carefully, as the truth on the real scale of the massacre finally emerges. Macron ...