Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parliament members vote on a bill seeking to criminalize France's colonisation, considering it a "state crime," and demanding that ...

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 ...

France’s National Assembly has unanimously passed a bill to return cultural property looted from the country’s former ...

The fruit and vegetable market at the Bastille market in the old city of Oran, Algeria, on November 5, 2025. (Billel Bensalem / APP NurPhoto via AFP) ALGIERS, Algeria (AFP) — Algeria’s Parliament ...

(KFVS) - U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced legislation to establish the Prairie du Rocher French Colonial National Historical Park. This park would include sites ...

May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

The French government has tapped the son of famous Nazi-hunters to help decide the fate of a contentious law that seeks to interpret the country’s colonial history. Arno Klarsfeld, 39, seems to ...

The idea of anticolonial translation — picking works, and approaches to those works, that resist or examine the effects of empire — has gained increasing sway among English-language translators and ...

Located 270km north of Dakar, the capital of Senegal, and near the border with Mauritania, is the Island of Saint-Louis. It is a prominent colonial city in West Africa, known for its blend of ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Legislators in Algeria voted to declare France’s colonization of the North African country a crime, approving a law that calls for restitution of property taken by France ...