The French military completed its withdrawal from Senegal on Thursday, the last West African country where it maintained a ...

Senegal's chief of the general staff, General Mbaye Cisse, right, and French General Pascal Ianni, who commands France's ...

Like a kind of Gallic Colonel Blimp, Paris' conservative Le Figaro (circ. 390,000) takes French imperial prestige with deep seriousness. To awaken the same feeling in other Frenchmen, Le Figaro ...

THE annexation of Ethiopia has presented the Italian Government with a tremendous problem in colonial administration. No other area in Africa of equal size offers such variety of topography, climate, ...

A valuable statement of the changes wrought by the war in the French colonial empire, ... La France D’outre-Mer: De L’empire Colonial à L’union Française (1938-1947) Reviewed by Robert Gale Woolbert ...

French MPs have unanimously adopted legislation allowing Paris to return to Cote d'Ivoire the Djidji Ayôkwé talking drum, ...

The northern city of Saint Louis, or Ndar in the predominant Wolof language, is renowned for its pastel-coloured colonial houses and was the capital of French West Africa until 1902.

FRENCH EMPIRE: Prize to Nippon. 6 minute read. TIME. September 16, 1940 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... The French Colonial Government canceled military leaves, closed the port of Haiphong, ...

Though officially the French empire sought to instill its three-pillared value system — liberty, equality and fraternity — throughout the colonies, this didn’t play out on the ground or in the war ...

In particular, the French colonial empire, spanning Africa and Southeast Asia, saw a significant expansion of hevea plantations at the expense of primary forests. Monocultures of rubber trees ...

Senegal’s new government has taken a hard-line stance against the presence of French troops as part of a larger regional ...