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 ...

FILE - Members of a French military flight crew talk on the tarmac at France's military air base in Dakar, Senegal, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File) DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The ...

It’s fair to say that El Hadji Diouf had a controversial run in football. From crashing his car while driving without a licence during his time at Rennes, to spitting at various people while at ...

Chad's government abruptly ended a defense cooperation agreement with former colonial power France, issuing the unexpected announcement just a few hours after a meeting of the foreign ministers of the ...

Following the release of France’s landmark restitution study last week, the political foosball of restitution requests has pinged across the African continent as more nations advocate for the return ...

“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 ...

The meeting between Senegal’s President Macky Sall and France’s Marine Le Pen, a member of the far-right political party National Rally, on 18 January provoked strong reactions, even within the head ...

The French prime minister Edouard Philippe handed over an important historical artifact that was confiscated during the colonial period to the Senegalese president Macky Sall yesterday. The iron, ...