Dakar, Senegal – On a weekday at Dakar’s open-air Fass Market, traders call out in a rhythmic buzz as some buyers approach from a nearby major highway: Boulevard du General de Gaulle, a road ...

In Senegal, streets named after French colonial figures are being changed to names of prominent people from Senegal. The move comes as the West African country is rethinking its ties with France and ...

Dakar and Paris are setting up a joint commission to arrange the departure of French troops from Senegal's territory by the ...

Amira Karaoud/Reuters] French President Emmanuel Macron admitted in a letter to Faye last year that France had committed a “massacre”. Senegal’s rejection of its colonial past continues a ...

The Senegalese government is seeking to redefine its long-standing relationship with its former colonial rulers, the French, ...

Senegal and France will set up a joint commission to organize the departure of French troops from Senegal and the restitution of French military bases by the end of 2025, the foreign ministers of ...

Indeed, streets in the capital city and across Senegal were originally named by the French colonial government and honoured ...

the former colonial power of the West African country. On December 23, 2023, French counter-terrorism operations in West Africa's Sahel region concluded.

The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late ...

The handover of the Kossei base, the French army's last such facility in the central African country, follows Chad's surprise breaking off of military cooperation with its former colonial ruler in ...