Residents of the village of Rubino, in south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire, continue to commemorate an uprising against a French ...

To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...

May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

DIEN BIEN PHU, VietnamDIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam — Vietnam on Tuesday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu in which the French colonial army was defeated by Vietnamese troops, ...

In 1909, French journalist-turned-entrepreneur Pierre-Francois Lardet returned from a trip to Nicaragua determined to recreate a beverage he had tasted there. Five years later, in August 1914, Banania ...

France has officially handed over its two remaining military bases in Senegal, leaving the onetime colonial power with no permanent presence in either West or Central Africa. France returned Camp ...

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 ...

The People’s National Assembly, the lower house of Algeria’ parliament, began debating a draft law on Saturday seeking to criminalize French colonization. The draft proposal has five chapters with 27 ...

PARIS (AP) — Is dislodging African artwork from a European museum a political statement, or a criminal act? That’s the question a French court weighed Wednesday in an emotionally charged trial ...

President Emmanuel Macron has embarked on a four-country visit as he slashes the French military presence and says colonial-era habits and attitudes must die. By Roger Cohen President Emmanuel Macron ...