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Cameroon to launch first industrial diamond mine

Cameroon to launch first industrial diamond mine

23 Jan 2013 11:27 - Reuters
Cameroon aims to begin production at its first industrial diamond mine by the end of January as part of plans to develop the long-neglected sector.
Black market dirties Zimbabwe diamond fields

Black market dirties Zimbabwe diamond fields

04 Mar 2012 13:16 - Justine Gerardy
The funeral of a gem dealer has revealed the illicit trade of diamonds in Zimbabwe has gone underground and may be propping up Zanu-PF cronies.

US trade group bans Zimbabwe's Marange diamonds

23 Dec 2011 08:12 - Staff Reporter
The Rapaport Group of diamond traders says it would boycott diamonds from Marange field, which has been widely associated with human rights abuses.
Campaigners call Kimberley Process an 'utter failure'

Campaigners call Kimberley Process an 'utter failure'

18 Dec 2011 16:45 - Tracy McVeigh
Conflict diamonds are to be used to fund a new campaign of violence by President Robert Mugabe's regime against his political opponents in Zimbabwe.
Zim diamond auction to go ahead despite activists' ire

Zim diamond auction to go ahead despite activists' ire

02 Dec 2011 08:04 -
Kimberley Process-approved diamonds from Chinese-Zimbabwean venture Anjin will be put on sale on Friday, despite criticism from Human Rights Watch.

Rights groups protest lift on Zim diamond ban

24 Jun 2011 10:29 - Staff Reporter
Civil society groups walked out of a Kimberley Process meeting in a show of no confidence in the regulator after it lifted a ban on Zimbabwe diamonds.

Mozambique steps up diamond controls

13 Jun 2011 13:06 - Staff Reporter
Mozambique will join an international conflict diamond monitoring scheme amid widespread gem smuggling from Zimbabwe's controversial Marange mines.

Ambivalence feeds Zimbabwe's diamond tyranny

20 May 2011 17:31 - Staff Reporter
SA and SADC cannot ignore the tight link between Zanu-PF's behaviour and its control of Marange

Marange's field of broken dreams

23 Jul 2010 09:34 - Ray Ndlovu
It was in June 2006 that diamonds were first discovered by villagers in Marange, a rural area of Chiadzwa, 90km south-west of Mutare.

Zim's diamond wealth could transform country

20 Jul 2010 07:46 -
Four years ago thousands of Zimbabweans descended on the Marange fields in the grip of diamond fever.

Zim diamond-crime whistleblower freed

13 Jul 2010 07:35 - Chengetai Zvauya
A judge has freed on bail an activist jailed for more than five weeks on allegations of passing false information on diamond-mining violations.

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