VIDEO: SA miners embrace on return to work

Thousands of miners at South Africa's biggest platinum mining firms return to work, a day after unions signed a deal to end a five-month strike.

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Lerato Mbele reports on the impact of the platinum workers' strike in South Africa, which has so far lasted for almost three months.

Desperate to make their fortunes, many people in Madagascar are putting their lives at risk.

The operation to rescue illegal gold miners trapped in an abandoned mine in South Africa has been halted overnight after 11 miners were rescued.

Many Malawians fled South Africa during the xenophobic attacks in April 2015 and some have vowed never to go back.

The Nigerian government is still hopeful of securing the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram.