France plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and radical Islamists near a former penal colony in ...

1850 - Indians, Malays and Chinese are brought ... will be transported to French Guiana. The Iles du Salut is used to house political prisoners, and become notorious for the brutality of life ...

Terrorist bands of East Indians and Negroes roamed British Guiana day and night last week, waging sporadic war on each other, murdering and looting, burning homes and assaulting women. Only the ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), as part of the plans to expand its ground station network, is working on building one in French Guiana. According to the space agency, “technical ...

At the recent Emancipation Symposium, Eric Phillips, head of the Guyana Reparations Committee, and Executive Member of the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) stated that Africans ...

In the Indian Ocean department of Mayotte, eight out of ten children live in poverty, according to Unicef. In French Guiana on the coast of South America, it's six out of ten. On the French ...