Several West African countries are intensifying efforts to shed remnants of their colonial past by renaming streets, squares, ...

Criminally, after the war, France carried out massacres of African soldiers that had fought in its ranks against Hitler.

Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will withdraw from the West African nation, further reducing the military influence of the former colonial power in the region. In an end-of-year ...

For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region. Leopold Sedar Senghor, the country’s first president and a poet ...

France once had a sizeable colonial presence in Africa and several of its former colonies in west Africa have sought ... which was under French rule from 1893 to 1960, remains a regional ally ...

French uranium mining company Orano says it has sued the government of Niger after the disappearance of its director and the ...

During that time these French authorities have been able to invoke the love which all West Indians feel for France in support of their policies. The Allied occupation of North Africa and the end of ...

As French forces departed Chad ... Russian content creators falsely claimed that ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) was planning an invasion of Niger, a narrative debunked by ...

As Europe celebrates the 80th anniversary of its triumph over fascism and the end of World War II, Algeria is remembering a darker anniversary: the colonial-era massacres that unfolded on the same day ...