Toussaint L’Ouverture emerged as the leader of the Haitian revolution in the late 1780s, playing a key role in leading the ...

The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late 1950s, as a way for France to control the economies of its African ...

The longtime patriarch of the French far right, Jean-Marie Le Pen, died last month. Yet while the cadaver lies in the ground, ...

This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...

Prime Minister François Bayrou’s ramming through of a deep austerity budget with support of the social-democratic PS and the neo-fascists exposes the bankruptcy of Mélenchon’s NFP.