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Alarm bells ring over activist death toll

Article Jonathan Watts - 19 Jun 2012

A new Global Witness report has revealed that environmental activists were killed at the rate of more than two a week in 2011.

Report: Mugabe’s loyalists squirrelling diamond money

Article bogdan TagDiv - 15 Feb 2012

Global Witness has said mining officials loyal to President Robert Mugabe are stashing profits from Zimbabwe's diamond fields off shore.

Angola’s top officials reap the cream

Article bogdan TagDiv - 3 Feb 2012

Lobby groups want multinational companies to stand against a government that bends the rules.

Kimberley Process left in the lurch over diamond dispute

Africa Staff Reporter - 5 Dec 2011

Global Witness has left the Kimberley Process after a series of disagreements, including the resumption of sales of Zimbabwe's Marange diamonds.

Zim to get huge diamond boost but activists irate

Article bogdan TagDiv - 2 Nov 2011

Zimbabwe could earn billions of dollars selling diamonds from an area scarred by abuse after a crisis that left the "blood diamond" watchdog tattered.

Zim rulers running diamond trade with ‘corruption, violence’

Article Staff Reporter - 14 Jun 2010

Zimbabwe's political and military leaders have used violence and intimidation to seize control of the country's lucrative diamond business.

Call for Zim to scrap sale of blood diamonds

Africa Staff Reporter - 29 Apr 2010

A rights group on Wednesday called on Zimbabwe to abandon plans to sell "blood diamonds" from a field plagued by abuses.

Global Witness condemns use of ‘conflict minerals’

Africa Staff Reporter - 16 Feb 2010

The watchdog group Global Witness on Monday urged cellphone manufacturers to beware of "conflict minerals" being used in their products.

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