Voters handed Senegal's president an overwhelming legislative majority in snap elections. Now, he has to deliver for them.

Hundreds of West African soldiers who fought for France during World War II were likely killed by the French army […] ...

Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Monday said he would remain head of the government rather than preside over the parliament, after his party's landslide election win sparked questions over ...

Chad's surprising announcement that it is ending military cooperation with France -- the last Sahel country to host French ...

Chad, a former African colony of France, has for decades been central to its military operations in Africa, but it is ...

Raila Odinga’s quest to be the next African Union Commission chairperson is getting clearer by the day with 25 member ...

The Thiaroye massacre remains a contentious historical episode as Senegal marks its 80th anniversary. In 1944, West African soldiers, part of the French colonial army, were killed by French troops ...

African soldiers who fought for France during World War Two were gunned down by French troops for demanding fair treatment ...

The mass slaying of West African soldiers by colonial forces at the end of World War II in Senegal remains shrouded in ...

Senegal on Sunday commemorated 80 years since the killing of dozens of African troops by French forces that the former ...

The Thiaroye massacre's 80th anniversary rekindles tensions between Senegal and France. Despite historians estimating hundreds of deaths, France only recently acknowledged it as a massacre. Senegalese ...

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye says Senegal 'does not accept the presence of military bases in a sovereign country'.