After talks in Qatar, the two countries’ presidents said they were committed to an unconditional truce between Congo’s army ...

France and Senegal are setting terms for a withdrawal ... The soldiers of the Tirailleurs Senegalais unit, who fought in France’s war against Nazi Germany, had been protesting delays in salaries ...

French photographer Yves Monteil was driving in Senegal when he passed a military cemetery in Thiaroye, in the suburbs of Dakar. Friends told him it was the burial site of Senegalese soldiers ...

France has handed control of two military facilities to Senegal, beginning the formal process of withdrawing its military presence from the West African country amid its waning influence in the region ...

Senegal President Bassirou Diyomaye Faye has set up a government agency to rename Senegalese street names, a sign of the cultural war against France now raging in most of West Africa which was once ...

Two of the five French army bases in Senegal were officially handed over to the local authorities on Friday. It's the first ...

In Senegal and The Gambia, stories of resilience, determination, and hope unfold every day. Women who once had stable lives were forced to flee their homes due to conflict, instability, and ...

France handed over two military facilities to Senegal on Friday, the French embassy said, the first formal step in ending French military presence in the West African country as the region shifts away ...

Dozens - perhaps hundreds - of West African troops who fought for France in World War Two were killed. The departure of Aliou Cisse as Senegal boss after almost a decade in charge and ...

The massacre at Thiaroye took place on 1 December, 1944, when French colonial troops opened fire on West African soldiers who had just returned from Europe, where they had been fighting for France.