VIDEO: The illegal gold fuelling gang battles

Some of the illegal miners who stayed inside an abandoned gold mine near Johannesburg have emerged, but an unknown number remain underground.

The bodies of five illegal miners are found near a disused gold mine in South Africa west of Johannesburg, emergency workers say.

>African Barrick Gold Plc, the Tanzanian subsidiary of Canadian gold company Barrick Gold Corp, has been accused of illegal payments to government officials in the North Mara mine. In the process of buying land near the mine starting last year, African Barrick paid more than $400,000 (Sh670 million) in cash, mostly to Tanzanian government officials and consultants responsible for valuing the land, according to company invoices and copies of cheques reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Collapse of illegal Tanzanian gold mine kills 19 people
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - The collapse of an illegal gold mine has killed 19 people in northwest Tanzania, a senior police official said on Friday. The accident occurred on Thursday night at Kahama district, Shinyanga region, near Acacia Mining's licensed ...

South Africa, home to over 80 percent of all rhino in the world, has lost over 800 of the creatures to poaching this year alone.

South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world and drugs and gun crime fuel the cycle of violence in the Cape Flats, an area notorious for gangs.

Artist Adekunle Gold has released the video for his latest single ‘Pick Up’

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Jeezy has launched “13 Days in November” as he gears up for his new album Church in These Streets. As part of the campaign, he will release a new piece of content each day leading up to his album release on Nov. 13.

For Day 12, he unleashes a video for his London On Da Track-produced banger “Gold Bottles.” In the celebratory clip, directed by David KA for Motion Family, the Snowman rides through the desert in his white Bentley. He toasts with his own “Project Gold Bottles” champagne and...

Faced with a dramatic drop in tourism and a battle to find everyday goods, residents of Timbuktu in Mali are struggling to survive.