The miners are suspected to have died of starvation and dehydration, although no causes of death have been released.

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

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 ...

The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances ...

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

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

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

Many people in Somaliland are convinced that the United States, under the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, is poised to ...

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