French Colonial Empire

DAKAR, Senegal, Apr 22 (IPS) - Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing on a painful past.

A rift within the TPLF has renewed the risk of a large interstate conflict.

Like Napoleon and the Ming dynasty, Europe is paying the price for strategic blindness.

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger accused the bloc of having double standards in punishing their military juntas. Negotiations failed to change their minds.

A UNICEF report revealed that at least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted in 2024 due to extreme weather.

He still wants Greenland, and the Panama Canal. Maybe Canada too, lol? Thing is, there's actual history here

Dec 18 (IPS) - In May 2024, Togo's President Faure Gnassingbé signed a new constitution, transitioning the country from a presidential to a parliamentary system. Under this new framework, lawmakers are responsible for electing the president.

The detention of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in Algeria shows how the shadows of colonialism continue to haunt the world of French letters.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 17 (IPS) - The new geopolitics after the first Cold War undermines peace, sustainability, and human development. Hegemonic priorities continue to threaten humanity's well-being and prospects for progress.

Nigeria's president is desperate for foreign investment—and after being ousted from Sahel countries, France is seeking new friends on the continent.

21WIRE + UNAPOLOGETIC | Professor Roy Casagranda takes us on a journey through the last 100 years of Middle Eastern history.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army in 1944 as a massacre in a...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday hailed a recently upgraded EU-Chile free trade agreement as he met counterpart Gabriel Boric in Santiago on the...

LONDON — People-smuggling gangs sending migrants across the English Channel in small boats are a serious threat to global security and should be treated like terror networks, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told an international law-enforcement conference on Monday. Starmer told a meeting of the international police organization Interpol that

More migrants from Vietnam than any other nation are taking small boats to the UK.

Conference convened by French president raises $800m in humanitarian aid and $200m to strengthen Lebanese army

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UNITED NATIONS, Sep 19 (IPS) - The United Nations, over the last year, has been relentlessly promoting the upcoming Summit of the Future – scheduled for September 22-23—as a landmark event. And rightly so.

A new book offers a masterful glimpse into the world of economic warfare.