After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

Fourteen former French colonies in Africa pay a “colonial tax” amounting to about $500 billion. These countries are Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo ...

Voices from former French colonies reflect on painful slave trade legacy. It's been more than two decades since France recognised slavery as a crime against humanity – the first country in the ...

Vietnam celebrated the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu that ended French colonial occupation with a parade in a stadium in Dien Bien Phu, today home to 80,000 people.