France's parliament on Monday approved returning to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the Ebrie tribe in 1916, in the latest boost to the repatriation of colonial spoils. The ...

The French Parliament approved on Monday the return of the Ayôkwé Djidji 'talking drum' that was lying dormant in the ...

In recent years, French colonial policy in general has come to have a strongly liberal cast. General de Gaulle's address of December 12, 1943, promising French citizenship to Moslems, and General ...

It was originally known as the “franc of the French colonies of Africa”, betraying France’s original intentions with the ...

HYERES, France (CN) — On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron and heads of state will gather in Provence to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the "other D-Day" Allied invasion of France, which ...

The only known descendant of a Senegalese rifleman killed by French forces in the 1944 Thiaroye massacre has filed a legal ...

France’s ‘colonial strategy’ blamed for division in troubled New Caledonia. Three months after the French Pacific territory was rocked by a wave of unrest, an uneasy calm has returned.

This may bring to mind the notorious overseas penal colonies of the French Empire (1852–1952), such as Devil’s Island in French Guiana or New Caledonia in the south Pacific, where criminals ...

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the Treaty of Dover, signed between Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France, ...