Investigations into one of the worst massacres in France's colonial history took a step forward on Thursday when researchers ...

The 301-page report submitted to President Faye exposes France’s denial and Senegal’s resolve to seek truth and reparations.

A new book by Historian Julia Gaffield analyzes the mixed legacy of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti's first head of state post ...

A massacre of African World War II riflemen demanding pay for fighting for France in 1944 was premeditated, covered up and ...

PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy paid homage Friday on a Riviera beach to soldiers from French colonies who 65 years ago landed in southern France to help defeat the Nazis in what is known as the ...

Placards and slogans against France that surfaced in demonstrations against impeached President Andry Rajoelina this week ...

The president of the Ivory Coast says he has asked France to withdraw its troops from the West African country. Ivory Coast officially gained independence from French colonial rule in 1960, but France ...

Martinique is the latest nation to begin breaking free from its French colonizer. The Caribbean island, which sits in the Lesser Antilles and is an overseas region of France, has joined the likes of ...