Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an ...

Several African countries and the continental body the African Union on Thursday welcomed a cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian resistance group Hamas. “I wish to commend the ...

(AP Video by Alfonso Nqunjana) Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to be underground, many of them dead and ...

WEST AFRICA has long been a source of booze. In Yoruba mythology Obatala, a deity sent to create humans, stumbled on palm wine and fell into a drunken slumber before completing the task.

Many people in Somaliland are convinced that the United States, under the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, is poised to become the world's first country to recognise the self-declared republic.

As It Happens6:10'Please pray for us,' says sister of missing South African miner as police halt rescue operation First responders pulled dozens of bodies and hundreds of emaciated survivors from ...

Please join the CSIS Africa Program for a conversation with U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield to discuss the state of U.S.-Africa relations. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield has had a storied career ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa—At least 78 people have died after authorities imposed a blockade on an illegal gold mine here, part of a monthslong standoff between prospectors and a government ...

Exciting events are set to amplify Morocco’s global presence. This year, it hosts the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), and in 2030, the country will join Spain and Portugal in hosting the FIFA ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, where at least 109 men have died, a group representing the miners ...