"France has not finished mourning its colonial past. That's one of the challenges of restitution", Senator Pierre Ouzoulias ...

France Withdraws from Senegal; Hands Over Last Two Bases in West Africa | Firstpost Africa | N18G France has officially ended ...

Senegal is an independent country, it is a sovereign country, and sovereignty does not accept the presence of military bases in a sovereign country,” President Faye said.

Senegal’s new government has taken a hard-line stance against the presence of French troops as part of a larger regional backlash against what many see as the legacy of an oppressive colonial empire.V ...

Earlier this year, France returned a "talking drum" seized in 1916 by French colonial forces from the Ebrie tribe to Ivory Coast. In 2019, then Prime Minister Edouard Philippe handed over a sword ...

CAJ Africa, a leading pan-African news agency, successfully organized a roundtable in Dakar, Senegal, bringing together key ...

France's colonial legacy came under renewed scrutiny as journalists, historians, and pan-African activists gathered at ...

France still has 600 troops in Ivory Coast, 350 in Senegal and 350 in Gabon, as well as around 1,500 in Djibouti. It has had 1,000 troops in Chad.

France has faced opposition from leaders of some of its former colonies in Africa over what they described as a demeaning and heavy-handed approach to the continent. The French mi ...