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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Biram Senghor, whose father was killed in 1944, holds a phone with a photo of his father, in Rufisque ...

Senegal on Sunday commemorated 80 years since the killing of scores of African troops by French forces that the former colonial master acknowledged this week had been a "massacre". Heads of state ...

Ireland is particularly germane to these concerns, he says, because it is “where the British created all their colonial methods, that’s where they tried it out first”. One way he opens up ...

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 ...

Those who died were part of the Tirailleurs Senegalais unit, recruited at the start of World War Two to help defend France, the colonial power. On returning to Senegal in 1944 many protested about ...