Children from East Africa, where heatwaves and floods have shuttered schools in recent months, are pushing for world leaders ...

Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited ...

The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...

The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited ...

My husband and I spent $400 per night at Black Rhino Game Lodge, where we went on safari, saw amazing wildlife, and ...

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...

After spending two months in a small Beirut apartment with an animal rights group, the four-and-half-month-old lion cub ...

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

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

The South African government has assembled a team of mine rescue experts to devise a plan for bringing illegal miners to the ...