In France's overseas departments, Creole language and culture are seen as a bulwark against racism and standardisation. The ...

The French, for example, clashed with Britain over several West African territories, and again with King Leopold over Central African regions. To avoid an all-out conflict between the rival ...

France has handed over control to the Senegalese government of two military bases in Senegal’s capital, Dakar that it has ...

Réunion lies about 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) to the southeast of Mayotte, another French territory off the east coast of Africa, which suffered destruction likened to an atomic bomb after ...

North Africa was the other main theatre of ... The Governors of other French Equatorial territories fell in behind him. The capital of the French Congo, Brazzaville, became a temporary capital ...