Among the wealthiest nations in Western Europe, France boasts both political potential and a high level of living .

Street names in Ivory Coast's economic capital have taken on a decidedly more local flavour over the past few weeks, as ...

Haiti, which declared its independence on Jan. 1, 1804, and defeated Napoleon’s army soon after, didn’t have the money to pay ...

France belatedly abolished slavery in 1848 in its remaining colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion and French Guyana, ...

France ″subjected the people of Haiti to a heavy financial indemnity, ... This decision placed a price on the freedom of a ...

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that historic injustice was imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity to France in exchange for its independence ...