French senators adopted a bill on Wednesday to simplify the return of artworks looted during the colonial era to their ...

Terrence G Peterson's book explores how 'pacifying' Algerian society became a focus of the French campaign against ...

"The idea is not to empty French museums," said centrist Senator Catherine Morin-Desailly.

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To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...

President Emmanuel Macron has embarked on a four-country visit as he slashes the French military presence and says colonial-era habits and attitudes must die. By Roger Cohen President Emmanuel Macron ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — It's been a tumultuous month for France and its relationship with former colonies in Africa, as its influence on the continent faces the biggest challenge in decades. As Paris ...

The president of the Ivory Coast says he has asked France to withdraw its troops from the West African country. Ivory Coast officially gained independence from French colonial rule in 1960, but France ...

Residents of the village of Rubino, in south-eastern Côte d'Ivoire, continue to commemorate an uprising against a French colonial army officer killed there on 7 July 1910. The village is named after ...