BBC Africa took a trip down to the event to see how several African countries are getting along in their efforts to promote ...

European governments should acknowledge and take responsibility for the enduring consequences of their colonial pasts, which ...

Four in every five people in Africa cook using wood, charcoal and other polluting fuels in open fires or inefficient stoves.

In the wake of Trump’s win, Kenya’s William Ruto said his country “stands ready” to deepen its ties with Washington.

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...

Inadequate funding, infrastructure issues, and fights over regulation mean the sector's future remains uncertain.

Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...

Who writes history? It depends on who you read. Dr. Bright Alozie of Portland State University considers himself a historian ...

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...

A body was brought out Thursday of an abandoned gold mine shaft in South Africa where hundreds of illegal miners were ...

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