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Botswana: The Second Diamond Revolution
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MMEGI:An ambitious plan for Botswana to chart its own course in the diamond industry, which has been on the drawing boards since 2002, is about to unfold. As Wanetsha Mosinyi reports, key aspects of "the second diamond revolution" entail almost parting ways with the De Beers...
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Sierra Leone: Rebel Leaders Await Ruling of U.N. Backed Court
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IPS News, FREETOWN: Final arguments in the trial of three former Revolutionary United Front commanders have ended in Freetown, making way for a judgment that is expected by the end of this year. The three -- Issa Sesay, Morris Kallon and Augustine Gbao -- have been on trial since...
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Children Work the Gold Mines to Supply Bankers
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Associated Press: A reef of gold buried beneath this vast, parched grassland arcs across some of the world's poorest countries. Where the ore is rich, industrial mines carve it out. Where it's not, the poor sift the earth. These hardscrabble miners include many thousands of...
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Zimbabwe: Diamond Boom Transforms Mutare
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IRIN: Diamonds have scripted a typical rags to riches story for Bonny, 35, who spent most of his life on the streets before the discovery of the gems three years ago, near the eastern Zimbabwe town of Mutare, transformed his life. "I have, over the last two years, acquired...
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Zimbabwe: Authorities Arrest Nearly 9,600 for Illegal Diamond Mining
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Police in Zimbabwe have arrested more than 9,600 diamond panners and dealers in the country since the year began, according to a World News Connection report. Authorities have recovered about 1,912 diamonds and impounded 148 suspected stolen vehicles used by the dealers to...
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Sierra Leone: U.N. Peacebuilding Office to Set-up in Freetown
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The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to create a peacebuilding office in Sierra Leone. Resolution 1829 mandates for a U.N. Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone, which is tasked with helping the government monitor and promote human rights,...
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PAC, DDI Suggest Improvements to Diamond Digger Co-op Programs
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Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) and the Diamond Development Initiative (DDI) released a joint policy brief, which summarized findings of several diamond digger cooperatives in Sierra Leone. The report was titled: Artisanal Diamond Cooperatives in Sierra Leone: Success or Failure?...
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CPX Web Drive Increases Awareness for Diamond Empowerment Fund
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CPX Interactive chose the Diamond Empowerment Fund (D.E.F.) as a beneficiary of its CPXample program, which ran from June 24 through July 22, 2008. D.E.F., which was established by Russell Simmons to raise money for education programs in diamond producing African nations,...
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Diamond News Broadcast
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De Beers first-half '08 results are in -- chairman Nicky Oppenheimer and managing director Gareth Penny discuss the outcome and what is in store for the second half. Dorothee Gizenga, recently appointed executive director of the Diamond Development Initiative (DDI,) discusses the...
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Montblanc to Carry 46664 Bangle in Support of the Mandela Foundation
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Nelson Mandela celebrated his 90th birthday today, weeks after a star-studded outdoor concert in London that was dedicated to the human rights leader. It was during this celebration that the 46664 bangle was introduced, which is a bracelet distributed in platinum, gold, and...
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Wal-Mart to Source Responsible Gold, Silver from Rio Tinto
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Wal-Mart chose Rio Tinto to provide gold and silver for fully traceable, responsibly-produced jewelry. The partnership is part of a Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer by far, developed an initiative to achieve 100 percent traceability for all of the gold and silver...
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Cream Minerals Updates the Trade on Progress in Sierra Leone
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Cream Minerals Ltd., which is prospecting on the Sewa River in Sierra Leone, exported a parcel of diamonds to Canada including 112 stones with a total weight of 53.93 carats. An independent value estimate of $10,701 from the Government Gold and Diamond Office (GGDO) of Sierra...
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UK: Trade Minister to Chair Ethics Debate During London Show
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The Birmingham Assay Office will stage "The Great Debate" during the International Jewellery London on September 3, 2008. The Assay office "continues to be concerned about ethical, humanitarian and social issues associated with the jewellery trade and is keen that these be...
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WDC: 'No News is Good News' as Conflict Diamonds Kept Under Control
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The following report was presented by Eli Izhakoff, chairman and CEO of the World Diamond Council (WDC,) during the WDC's fifth annual meeting which took place in Antwerp, Belgium this week...My dear colleagues, In an organisation such as ours, the best that a chairman...
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Violence Against Diggers Alarms U.N. Rep.
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The United Nations peacekeeping boss in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) expressed his deep concerns for continued violence against diamond diggers being evicted from neighboring Angola. Alan Doss, head of MONUC in the DRC, told Radio France Internationale that...
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Don't Trade Diamonds from Venezuela
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Now that Venezuela suspended itself from the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme for a period of at least two years, Avi Paz, president of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB,) has called upon members of the 29 bourses affiliated to the WFDB to take all measures...
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