In West Africa, a growing wave of protests against the use of the CFA franc is gaining momentum, with artists leading the charge through powerful visual statements. This currency, a relic of the ...

Biram Senghor regularly pays his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal's capital Dakar, ...

Senegal commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre on Sunday, honouring the African riflemen killed by French ...

African soldiers who fought for France during World War Two were gunned down by French troops for demanding fair treatment and payment on their return.

The mass slaying of West African soldiers by colonial forces at the end of World War II in Senegal remains shrouded in ...

Senegal on Sunday commemorated 80 years since the killing of dozens of African troops by French forces that the former ...

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 ...

Traders are using ship-to-ship loadings near the Senegalese port of Dakar to handle Russian naphtha exports to Brazil.

Chad’s government said it was ending a defense cooperation agreement with France in order to redefine the nation’s ...

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye told AFP Thursday that France should close its military bases in the West African state as it prepared to mark the 80th anniversary of a notorious colonial ...