During the 1950s and ’60s, France waged a brutal colonial war in Cameroon while managing to keep it largely shielded from scrutiny. The American historian Caroline Elkins refers to the silence that ...

Workers installed a third statue at Veterans Memorial Park in Beatrice depicting a Vietnam War-era solider carrying another soldier to join statues honoring veterans from World War II and the ...

The artist said, "freedom feels out of reach" for migrants and "those pushed to the margins, silenced, or unseen." ...

France will on Thursday formally hand back its last military bases in Senegal, leaving the French army with no permanent ...

On the daylong Living History Cruise, visitors can tour the galley, sleeping quarters, navigation center and museum spaces, ...

The United Nations, a collaborative global dream built into reality out of the ashes of World War II, marks its 80th anniversary this month. There’s little to celebrate. Its clout on the world stage ...

Today, the map ... Africa and Latin America deserve permanent seats. Singapore’s Mahbubani said he believes the United Nations “will definitely survive.” The “genius” of its founders, he said, was to ...

Since 2022, France has been progressively withdrawing its troops from West Africa due to opposition against French military presence in the region.

By the end of World War II, however, Baker had transformed herself into a regal activist for racial justice, an extraordinary reinvention that, as Hanna Diamond relates in “Josephine Baker’s Secret ...

France’s military presence in Africa has been anchored in counterinsurgency operations, particularly through Operation Barkhane, launched in 2014 to combat militant groups in the Sahel.

Seven years on and the French government's very public commitment to return art and cultural objects back to Africa, seemed to have stalled.

With France’s military influence in Africa gone, can it rely on soft power? The French language and a CFA currency tying 14 countries to France’s treasury continue to have big effects.