The site, which consists of both open-pit and underground mining operations, produced nearly 700,000 ounces of gold in 2023.

After gold first being discovered in the Witwatersrand basin in 1886, miners quickly established the city of Johannesburg, which explains why South Africa's commercial capital is the world's ...

Gold deposits were formed within west Africa's craton rocks during a major tectonic event, known as the Eburnean Orogeny, 2.2 billion to 2.08 billion years ago. This event was accompanied by the ...

STUTTGART, Germany — A series of airstrikes this week killed multiple Islamic militants in Somalia, U.S. Africa Command said Wednesday. The strikes, which were in coordination with the Somali ...

Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province militants have mainly operated in the northeast of Nigeria, attacking security forces and civilians and killing and displacing tens of thousands ...

Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, Russian deputy defense minister and President Vladimir Putin's special envoy to Africa, visited C.A.R. on March 2 to give assurance of continued military and economic support ...

Mali’s Loulo-Gounkoto gold mine, one of the largest in Africa, was forced to shut down after the country’s military-led government seized three metric tonnes of gold worth approximately £190 ...