In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at ...

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

Allegations that the miners resorted to eating human flesh in order to survive were also made by other miners who were ...

Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by ...

More than 70 people have reportedly died while trapped in a mine after a monthlong standoff with the South African government ...

In South Africa, nearly 2,000 illegal miners faced starvation and dire conditions in abandoned mines after a police crackdown. Many miners died due to lack of food and supplies. This illegal mining ...

The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food ...

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...