Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...

South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...

Authorities launched an operation in November to force the illegally operating miners out by cutting off food and water from ...

A desperate fight for survival, harsh criticism of the authorities and millions in damage to South Africa's economy: the ...

The West African police action, known as Operation Sanu, also marked a first for tackling illegal sand mining in Gambia.

Authorities in South Africa began rescuing hundreds of people sheltering in an illegal gold mine with videos showing corpses ...

More than 100 illegal miners are believed to have died of starvation or dehydration in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near ...

At least 100 illegal miners have died in an abandoned South African gold mine, trapped underground for months. Authorities ...