Juliya Arbisman, Niyati Ahuja and Hyuna Yong of Reed Smith LLP discuss the recently implemented Agreement on African ...

West African leaders considered military intervention to stop Niger from falling under the sway of a junta following a coup. ...

South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...

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

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

Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas - from an ...

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

South Africa’s Anrich Nortje has been ruled out of the ICC Champions Trophy with a back injury, the latest in a long line of ...

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

Rescue teams in South Africa have stepped up efforts to pull out survivors and the corpses of illegal miners trapped ...

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