The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

Rescuers racing to clear a disused South African gold shaft of illegal miners said Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...

Police operation to stamp out illegal mining by blocking food supplies has turned to tragedy as relatives wait for loved ones ...

Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

The total value of West Africa's regional BRVM stock exchange rose to 20.6 trillion CFA francs ($32 billion) in 2024, a ...

Nigerian troops have killed 76 Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) militants in the country's ...

Several governments across Southern Africa grew increasingly authoritarian and intolerant of dissent throughout 2024.

Dr. Durkin and his colleagues set out to determine exactly what kind of environment Homo erectus lived in a million years ago ...

Many people in Somaliland are convinced that the United States, under the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, is poised to ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...