STORY: French troops lowered their flag from a base in Chad on Friday, marking the end of France's military presence in the ...

France waged a war marked by "extreme violence" during Cameroon's fight for independence in the late 1950s, historians said ...

"Revenge Taken by the Black Army" depicts actions taken against the French ... Domingue's war for independence from France and slavery. Toussaint had since been taken captive, but rebel soldiers ...

By nightfall, 150 French soldiers were dead. The French retaliated, killing thousands of Spaniards. It was the start of a brutal, no-holds-barred war, marked by savagery on both sides. The French ...

P resident Emmanuel Macron on Friday recognised that Larbi Ben M’hidi, a key figure in Algeria’s War of Independence against France, had been killed by French soldiers after his arrest in 1957 ...

Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced on 31 December 2024 that all foreign military bases in his country would ...

Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will withdraw from the West African nation, further reducing the military ...

Ivory Coast officially gained independence from French colonial rule in 1960, but France has maintained a military presence for decades, with some 600 soldiers remaining in the country when ...

The second world war made him a fierce patriot ... the rebel of 1940 and the hunter of rebels [French soldiers opposed to Algerian independence] in 1961. Both form one false great man whose ...