President Emmanuel Macron has begun a two-day visit to the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar in what is the first state visit ...

Archaeologists were preparing for construction of a business park in Creuzier-le-Neuf, France when they happened upon a vast ...

And fired the shot heard round the world. So goes the first stanza of a hymn written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837 and sung to the tune of “Old Hundredth” for the dedication of an obelisk at the site ...

Entre compromission et actes de bravoure, les trois femmes de lettres ont joué un jeu dangereux mais nécessaire à leur survie ...

Après la défaite de 1940, et face à l'effondrement surprise de la puissance française, tous les regards se tournent vers un horizon d'espoir et d'incertitude : les colonies. La France est soudain deve ...

BY the terms of the armistice with Germany and Italy which came into effect on June 25, 1940, the Pétain government laid down ...

While many Western countries gave independence to African countries, France was never genuine and it remains until today, very unreasonable to the total liberation of its former colonies.

The OIF had suspended Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger following military coups in these three former French colonies, which were among the inaugural members of the OIF when it was established in ...

Niger is not alone in this effort, as other former French colonies in the region, such as Mali and Burkina Faso, are also taking similar steps. All three countries have quit the Organisation ...

Niger is not alone in this movement. Its neighbors, Mali and Burkina Faso—both under military rule and former French colonies—are taking similar actions. They have also withdrawn from the Organisation ...