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France has made a key gesture of remembrance for the dozens of African troops shot dead on French army orders in Senegal during World War II, a government official said Sunday, as Paris seeks to ease tensions with former colonies over historical memory.
Six of the African soldiers -- four from Senegal, one from Ivory Coast and one from what is now Burkina Faso -- have been posthumously honoured for having "died for France" ("morts pour la France").
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