BBC Africa took a trip down to the event to see how several African countries are getting along in their efforts to promote ...

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...

Four in every five people in Africa cook using wood, charcoal and other polluting fuels in open fires or inefficient stoves.

Who writes history? It depends on who you read. Dr. Bright Alozie of Portland State University considers himself a historian ...

South African authorities are blocking food and water for an estimated 4,000 people who are underground in an illegal mine.

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

That is what we are trying not to do. We play a physical brand but these players are not guys who just want to hate people.” ...

A team including mine safety experts, police, the army and various government departments was scheduled to meet Friday to put ...

A body was brought out Thursday of an abandoned gold mine shaft in South Africa where hundreds of illegal miners were ...

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...

Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...