Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A general view shows the graves of the Senegalese infantrymen killed on 1 December, 1944 by the French army at the Thiaroye ...

When then-French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron described colonisation as a “crime against humanity” in Algeria in 2017, he probably thought he had exorcised the ghost of France’s presence in ...

Holes in the ground, clods of earth next to headstones, dislocated concrete outlines: the Thiaroye military cemetery near Dakar bears the marks of recent excavations meant to unearth the truth behind ...

A long-awaited report on the World War II-era Thiaroye massacre will be submitted to the Senegalese presidency on Thursday, aiming to shed light on the colonial killing of dozens of African troops ...

A French administrative court has ruled that the state was at fault for failing to properly investigate the death of an African rifleman killed in the 1944 Thiaroye massacre in Senegal, when the ...

An official report commissioned by Senegal on the killing of dozens of African WWII troops by French forces in 1944 will be presented to President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday. The Barron's news ...