The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...

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

The country has been roiled by political chaos since the October election, which led to widespread demonstrations and a ...

A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

Fewer births are remaking the world we live in, and the west isn’t in the mood to examine the alternatives. John Authers is a ...

Rescuers have sent a cagelike structure into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds ...

The capabilities of the Nigerian Air Force have geopolitical implications for combating terrorism and threats of coups in ...

Testing new antibiotics in India, South Africa or Brazil, where they are needed most, makes scientific sense. But it’s not ...

Finally, states that develop peacekeeping armies afford peace operations a high level of prominence in their national ...

Africa has seen a wave of youth-led protests fuelled by frustrations over rampant corruption, poor governance, high living ...