A false statement attributed to the French President has been circulating on social media. View on euronews ...

France has restructured its military presence in recent months, closing most of its historic bases in West Africa. However, ...

Yet the American public knows little factually either about Dakar itself or about French West Africa, the area of which it is the capital. French West Africa is a region of vast extent and magnificent ...

“In the course of an investigation over the past few months in French West Africa,” said La Graviére, “I have obtained proof that several hundred Negroes have been sent as slaves by African ...

For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region. Leopold Sedar Senghor, the country’s first president and a poet ...

The Russia-backed Wagner Group says it is leaving Mali after more than three and a half years of fighting Islamic extremists ...

S. His father, Sheik Mamadou. is the “ruling notable” of nearly 2,000,000 Senegalese of French West Africa, although the French Governor General’s word in that section of the world is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Archaeologists in Senegal have uncovered skeletons with bullets lodged in the bodies during the first excavation of a ...

Eight pallbearers – some wearing tracksuits emblazoned with the FIFA logo – carried a coffin on their shoulders. Alongside them, referee whistles echoed the tune of a song being sung by the ...