Remembering sacrifice: France honours African WWI troops

They are often forgotten, but in world war one, tens of thousands of African and Asian soldiers died on the Western Front in Europe.

For decades, little attention has been paid to these soldiers.

A century on, there are new efforts to remember their sacrifice.

 

Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler reports.

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