THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP) — Biram Senghor regularly pays his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal’s capital Dakar, bowing in front of a different grave each ...

A general view shows the graves of the Senegalese infantrymen killed on 1 December, 1944 by the French army at the Thiaroye military cemetery in Dakar, on 26 November, 2024. A long-awaited report ...

“Symbolically, Thiaroye represents something very powerful. Firstly, because it represents 80 years of government lies,” says historian Armelle Mabon, referring to a bloody repression of Senegalese ...

Thiaroye, SENEGAL (Reuters) -Senegal on Sunday commemorated the 80th anniversary of a massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War Two, and were gunned down by French troops in ...

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 ...