Illegal miners said they had to eat cockroaches after police cut off their food supply. Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African authorities on Tuesday said they had recovered the bodies of three police officers from a river ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Africa's regional governance bodies on Saturday rejected Israel's recognition of Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland as an ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine, where they have languished for over ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies from an ...

An African academic rights watchdog has raised serious concerns over what it describes as a “systematic and alarming erosion” of academic freedom and trade union rights in Zimbabwe, with the ...