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 ...
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Senegal's new president, Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, has expressed concern over the presence of the French military in his ...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French ...
Commemoration prompts renewed calls for investigation into the killing of African soldiers by the French army in 1944.
In an interview with Le Monde, the Senegalese president, an advocate of sovereigntist policy, discusses the 1944 Thiaroye massacre and the relationship he intends to forge with France, whose influence ...
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday said that France should close all its army bases in the country, ...
France honours WWII colonial troops shot dead by French army in Senegal This year's commemorations have been prepared ...
Historians estimate hundreds of West African soldiers who fought for France were killed in 1944 by the French army after they ...
As Senegal marks the 80th anniversary of the massacre, calls for accountability from France grow louder amid unresolved ...
The West Africans were members of the unit called “Tirailleurs Sénégalais,” a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army ...