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Thiaroye massacre. The Thiaroye massacre (French: Massacre de Thiaroye; pronounced [tja.ʁwa]) was a massacre of French West African veterans of the 1940 Battle of France, by French forces on the morning of 1 December 1944. These Tirailleurs Sénégalais units had been recently liberated from prisoner camps and after being repatriated to West ...
An Algerian stripped naked and subjected to the actions of five French soldiers, who spread his legs and touch his intimate parts. The Algerian War was an armed conflict between the French Armed Forces and the Algerian National Liberation Front between the years 1954-1962 which ended with Algeria gaining independence from France.
France and the Rwandan genocide. A French marine, part of the international force supporting the relief effort for Rwandan refugees, adjusts the concertina wire surrounding the airport. The role of France in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi has been a source of controversy and debate both within and beyond France and Rwanda.
The Oran massacre of 1962 (5–7 July 1962) was the mass killing of Pied-Noir and European expatriates living in Algeria. It took place in Oran beginning on the date of Algerian independence, and ended on 7 July 1962. Estimates of the casualties vary from a low of 95 (twenty of whom were European) [1] to 365 deaths in a report by a group of ...
Wagner Group activities in Africa. The Wagner Group is a Russian state-funded [1] paramilitary organization, also described as a private military company (PMC) and as a network of mercenaries. [2][3] Since 2017 it has provided military support, security and protection for several governments in Africa. [4] In return, Russian and Wagner-linked ...
Kasdi Merbah, former Prime Minister of Algeria. March 10, 1994. Abdelkader Alloula, playwright. Killed by two members of the Islamic Front for Armed Jihad. September 29, 1994. Cheb Hasni, singer. December 3, 1994. Saïd Mekbel, journalist. Assassinated with a car bomb in Aïn Bénian.
Free French Africa (French: Afrique française libre, sometimes abbreviated to AFL) was the political entity which collectively represented the colonial territories of French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon under the control of Free France in World War II. It provided a political and territorial base for Free France and strengthened General ...
In international relations, Françafrique (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃safʁik]) is France's sphere of influence (or pré carré in French, meaning 'backyard') over former French and (also French-speaking) Belgian colonies in sub-Saharan Africa. [9] The term was derived from the expression France-Afrique, which was used by the first president ...