Over 100 Dead in Illegal Gold Mine Collapse in Central African Republic

A landslide buried an unregulated artisanal gold mine — meaning a low-tech, hand-dug operation with no safety oversight — in the Central African Republic on August 19, 2026, killing more than 100 people, Reuters reported. Such informal sites are common across the region. The death toll ranks among the deadliest single mining disasters in recent African memory.