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

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

South Africa’s Anrich Nortje has been ruled out of the ICC Champions Trophy with a back injury, the latest in a long line of ...

Toyota's South African Henk Lategan regained the overall lead in the Dakar Rally on Wednesday with a two minutes and 27 ...

Africa is viewed worldwide as a "sleeping gas giant”. The continent’s total gas reserves are almost as large as those of the ...

The French territory of Mayotte is on red alert again with another cyclone heading toward the islands off Africa that were ...