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 ...

“The thousands of men … came from all over the French colonial empire,” Biya said. “The contribution of Africa was significant in the fight to free France of the chains of German occupation.” Over ...

In response, colonial soldiers fired on them, killing an undetermined number. French authorities at the time tried to bury ...

The last surviving African soldiers who fought for colonial-era France will be able to live out their final days in their home countries following the French government's U-turn on their pension ...

The massacre at Thiaroye took place on 1 December, 1944, when French colonial troops opened fire on West African soldiers who had just returned from Europe, where they had been fighting for France.

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Historian Anthony Guyon, author of a book on African fighters in the French army, says that while these colonial soldiers were officially listed as volunteers, the reality was more complex ...

PARIS (AP) — Some of the last survivors in France from a colonial-era infantry corps that recruited tens of thousands of African soldiers to fight in French wars around the world will be able to ...