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 ...

Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and ...

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

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

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

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

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

Juliya Arbisman, Niyati Ahuja and Hyuna Yong of Reed Smith LLP discuss the recently implemented Agreement on African ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

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

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 ...