Russia has deployed up to 200 military instructors to Equatorial Guinea in recent weeks to protect the presidency, sources ...

Russia is seeking to woo African countries this weekend at a summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, with President Vladimir ...

South African police confirm the partly decomposed body of one miner had been brought to the surface from inside the ...

South Africa’s government says it will not help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West ...

Blog - The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified climate change as one of humanity's most significant health threat, with significant impacts across Africa. Rising temperatures and erratic ...

West Africa is emerging as a global hotspot for gold M&A as record prices and the region's rich geology entice miners.

Gold miner Resolute Mining finds itself at the center of a broad shakeup of regulatory regimes across West Africa following ...

the largest salt deposit in West Africa, according to Third World Network (TWN Africa), an NGO. This claim to the whole of ...

Ian Cockerill, appointed CEO of West Africa’s leading gold producer in January, takes stock of his first few months at the ...

South African police are involved in a standoff with illegal miners in a disused shaft, amidst efforts to curb illegal mining across the nation. Police have been cutting off supplies, leading to over ...

Photo by FLORENT VERGNES / AFP) (Photo by FLORENT VERGNES/AFP via Getty Images) RECENT arrests of company executives in Mali ...