South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
South African authorities have come 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 ...
Rescuers have sent a cagelike structure into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds ...
The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...
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.
More than 100 illegal miners are believed to have died of starvation or dehydration in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near ...
Authorities in South Africa began rescuing hundreds of people sheltering in an illegal gold mine with videos showing corpses ...