Senegal demands answers as the West African country commemorates a French colonial massacre Biram Senghor, whose father was killed in 1944, holds a phone with a photo of his father, in Rufisque ...

THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal — Biram Senghor regularly pays his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal’s capital Dakar, bowing in front of a different grave ...

Reporting from Thiaroye, Senegal Dec. 1, 2024 The middle school students in Senegal listened quietly one afternoon this past week as their history teacher told a story most of them knew already.

Senegal commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Thiaroye massacre. At the ceremony held at the military cemetery in Thiaroye on Sunday (December 1), President Diomaye Faye announced the ...

THIAROYE, Senegal – Nearly a decade ago, Senegalese fisherman Mor Mar embarked on an illegal sea voyage to Spain, hoping a better life awaited him in Europe. Along with 80 other would-be ...

THIAROYE, Senegal — Before the old man dies, he yearns to see his father’s bones. It’s the only way to clear his family’s name, he said, and prove a long-buried truth to the world: ...

THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal (AP) — Biram Senghor regularly pays his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal’s capital Dakar… ...

On Dec. 1, 1944, likely hundreds of West African riflemen who fought for France during World War II were killed by the French army after demanding their unpaid wages. THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal ...

THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal -- Biram Senghor regularly pays his respects at a military cemetery in Thiaroye, a fishing village near Senegal's capital Dakar, bowing in front of a different grave each ...