The news of Gauteng’s grave site preparations raised alarm about the expected number of Covid-19-related deaths in the province

The United Nations says a mass grave had been discovered in rebel-held Bentiu, the capital of South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity State.

Beneath the detritus and shacks constructed on al-Sadah is buried what might be one of the largest unopened mass graves in Iraq’s capital.

Libya’s new rulers have unearthed a mass grave of 1 700 prisoners slain by Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in a 1996 uprising.

Mexico’s top public safety official in Tamaulipas state resigned after mass graves were found in the state with remains of at least 145 people.

At least 11 bodies were found in five new mass graves located in Sinaloa state in north-western Mexico, state prosecutors said on Tuesday.

A court has ordered militant supporters of Robert Mugabe to stop exhuming hundreds of skeletons they say were the victims of colonial-era massacres.

Hundreds of bodies exhumed from a disused mine in Zimbabwe have turned into fodder for President Robert Mugabe’s propaganda.