A Kenyan government minister has alleged that the country's national intelligence agency was behind the abduction of his son ...

A Mozambican trader was kidnapped in central Maputo by four armed men early on Saturday afternoon, a source from the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) confirmed to Lusa, in the first publicly ...

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

First responders pulled dozens of bodies and hundreds of emaciated survivors from an abandoned gold mine this week, bringing ...

How can one rationalise punishing miners in such a manner—miners who, in many cases, are themselves economic refugees from ...

In a yearly address to diplomats delivered on his behalf by an aide, Francis appeared to reference deaths caused by winter ...

Rescue operations were underway at a gold mine in South Africa's North West province where hundreds of illegal miners have been underground for months.

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near ...

Following months of protests against his disputed election victory, Daniel Chapo of Mozambique's Frelimo party has been sworn ...

Hundreds of supporters of Mozambique’s opposition protested as the country inaugurated a new president following disputed elections and deadly unrest.