On Wednesday, the Senegalese government announced plans to undertake archaeological excavations to uncover "the truth" about ...

Liberated in 1944, the soldiers were taken back to Senegal and housed in the Thiaroye military camp, 15km (nine miles) from the capital, Dakar. Even before leaving France, many had been ...

This photograph shows a victim of the Thiaroye massacre, in which French soldiers in Senegal gunned down African soldiers who had fought on its side in World War II after they demanded fair pay ...

Senegal's president said he had received a letter from Macron admitting French culpability for a World War II-era massacre at Thiaroye on December 1, 1944. The atrocity has long been a bone of ...

Two decades later, in 1973, he wrote to Senegal's then-president Leopold ... Mabon wrote in her book, "Massacre de Thiaroye: History of a State Lie", published in November. Following the 1944 ...