Juliya Arbisman, Niyati Ahuja and Hyuna Yong of Reed Smith LLP discuss the recently implemented Agreement on African ...

West African leaders considered military intervention to stop Niger from falling under the sway of a junta following a coup. ...

Italian aerospace company Leonardo and agro-industrial group BF signed a deal with the government on Friday to provide ...

South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas - from an ...

It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...

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

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

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...