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.
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday said that France should close all its army bases in the country, ...
Bassirou Diomaye Faye's statement comes ahead of Thiaroye massacre anniversary when French troops killed hundreds of African ...
Historians estimate hundreds of West African soldiers who fought for France were killed in 1944 by the French army after they ...
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 ...
Between 35 and 400 West African soldiers who fought for the French Army in the Battle of France in 1940 were killed on Dec. 1 ...
France’s President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army ...
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 ...
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.