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France wants to honor its African heroes

2020-07-03T23:11:56.539Z


The Ministry of the Armed Forces would like to bring these African combatants who liberated France out of oblivion.


The list includes a hundred names, most of them unknown, of combatants who served France. They were born in colonies in Africa, in Senegal, in Algeria, in Chad, in Mauritania… Many fell during the campaign of France in 1940 or at the end of the Second World War, at the time of the liberation of the country. Some have been taken prisoner. Others continued on their way after the conflict. A year after the speech of the Head of State, Emmanuel Macron, paying tribute "to the part of Africa" which liberated France, the Ministry of the Armed Forces would like to bring these combatants out of oblivion.

"The names, the faces, the lives of these African heroes must be part of our lives as free citizens, because without them we would not be," said Secretary of State Geneviève Darrieussecq, presenting Tuesday these biographies chosen among others. She invited mayors to draw on this list to name streets or squares in their cities with the name

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Source: lefigaro

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