22 of the former soldiers will no longer have to spend six months a year in France to continue receiving their pension. It coincides with the cinema release in France of a movie highlighting the sacrifices made by African soldiers on bloody French battlefields in WWI titled "Tirailleurs."
Some of the last survivors in France from a colonial-era infantry corps that recruited tens of thousands of African soldiers to fight in French wars around the world will be able to live out their final days with family members back in Africa after a French government U-turn on their pension rights
PARIS (AP) Some of the last survivors in France from a colonial-era infantry corps that recruited tens of thousands of African soldiers to fight in French wars around the world will be able to live out their final days with family members back in Africa after a French government U-turn on their pension rights.
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