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

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

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

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

Senegal commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre. At the ceremony held at the military cemetery in Thiaroye ...

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

Senegal marks the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre. On that day in 1944, at least 35 Tirailleurs – members of a ...

Between 35 and 400 West African soldiers who fought for the French Army in the Battle of France in 1940 were killed on Dec. 1 ...

Anger over the money grew once at Thiaroye, which the colonial authority viewed ... triggered a chain of events that resulted ...

For half a century, the son of a Senegalese soldier massacred by the French army he had fought for during WWII has sought ...