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

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

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

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

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 ...

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

Tanzania's government said no-one in the country had tested positive for the Marburg virus after the World Health ...

Rights groups say police used starvation as a weapon to force out illegal miners, resulting in close to 80 deaths.

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 ...

Wear This By Jameson Montgomery The painter Chris Martin lives and works between his homes in Brooklyn and New York’s ...