Africa

Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa remains a troubled country with glaring racial disparities in income, employment, and access to everything from adequate housing to drinking water...

A months-long standoff between South African authorities and illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine in the town of Stilfontein ended this week with at least 78 people killed –...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — The death toll in a monthslong trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87, police...

Months after working in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, rescuers removed 36 bodies and 82 survivors from the mine after two days of operations, police said on Tuesday....

South African rescuers have pulled 36 bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine in two days of operations, police say, adding that the survivors would face illegal mining and...

EXCLUSIVE: There’s a new Superstore opening in Africa. African streamer Showmax has ordered a local version of the NBCUniversal format show, which began life exactly ten years ago, when NBC...

Rescuers were sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines on Tuesday in an attempt to bring out survivors among hundreds of illegal miners trapped underground for...

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron’s top diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonne plunged the president’s inner circle into uncertainty last week when he announced he was throwing in the towel. Bonne,...

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) commands you to lean in and pay attention and connect the dots of its story and,...

JOHANNESBURG — At least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa have died after being trapped deep underground for months while police tried...