On Dec. 1, 1944, hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were likely killed by the French ...

On Dec. 1, 1944, likely hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were killed by the French ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron has for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army ...

Commemoration prompts renewed calls for an investigation into the killing of African soldiers by the French army in 1944.

Senegal has commemorated the 80th anniversary of a colonial-era massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War II and were shot by French soldiers in 1944 for demanding fair ...

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday said that France should close all its army ... French bases in the country was incompatible with national sovereignty. “Senegal is an ...

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 ...

“(French President Emmanuel ... you will have a hard time conceiving that another army — of China, Russia, Senegal, or any other country — could have a military base in France.” ...

Between 35 and 400 West African soldiers who fought for the French Army in the second World War were killed on Dec. 1, 1944 ...