On Dec. 1, 1944, likely hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were killed by the French ...
Commemoration prompts renewed calls for 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, ...
THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal — Biram Senghor regularly pays ... World War II but were likely killed on Dec. 1, 1944, by the French army after demanding unpaid wages. In this cemetery, where they ...
Hundreds of West African soldiers who fought for France during World War II were likely killed by the French army on Dec. 1, 1944, after demanding unpaid wages. THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP ...