A French police officer will face trial next year on charges of voluntary homicide for the killing of a 17-year-old of North ...

MONSIEUR LE MINISTRE: Since the emancipation of the slaves our colonies have sought to ... We ought then to find in India, in the French possessions in Africa, and in the countries in which ...

Some former French colonies in Africa are fast gaining notoriety for military coups. Experts blame the worrying trend on high levels of poverty, ineffective civil society and media, as well as ...

The common CFA franc currency, used by former French colonies in West and Central Africa, has been a big point of controversy ...

Directly under French command, this battalion “is ... last few military footholds it has left in its former colonies in the ...

The 80th anniversary of the massacre comes as France’s influence is declining in the region, with Paris losing its sway in its former West African colonies. French troops have been ousted in ...

The president of the Ivory Coast says he has asked France to withdraw its troops from the West African country. Ivory Coast officially gained independence from French colonial rule in 1960 ...

France starts 2025 with a further drawdown of its military presence in its former African colonies, and fresh tensions ignited this week with controversial remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron.

made up of troops recruited from across French-speaking Africa. Some 350,000 soldiers from French colonies volunteered or were forced to fight for France during the First and Second World Wars.

The African quarter in Berlin is not the ... streets bearing the names of people who had links with colonial companies – Swiss, French, German ... So Switzerland isn't completely neutral either.

A French police officer will face trial next year on charges of voluntary homicide for the killing of a 17-year-old of North ...