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

It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...

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

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

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

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

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

Civilians in East Africa and the Horn bore the brunt of armed conflicts between government forces and opposition armed groups ...

A new species of predatory dinosaur that lived in North Africa 95 million years ago has been identified—some 80 years after ...

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

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