Across Africa, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from a mining shaft this week, and more are believed to remain underground.

International donors, the UN, Sudan’s warring parties and their allies must act now to prevent even more avoidable deaths ...

The economic turmoil facing civilians in Gaza is in fact noted by South Africa’s 84 page ICJ document which accuses Israel of ...

Rights groups say police used starvation as a weapon to force out illegal miners, resulting in close to 80 deaths.

More than 100 others are believed to have died from starvation and dehydration while underground. South Africa’s Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) described the deaths at the Stilfontein mine ...

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk described the “senseless” war where alleged war crimes have been ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...

More than 100 people are believed to have died from starvation or dehydration ... interests of mine-affected communities across South Africa — claimed that "more than 100 have died" in a ...

A devastating situation has unfolded in South Africa's North West province, where at least 100 illegal gold miners have died of suspected starvation and dehydration, according to Sabelo Mnguni ...