FREETOWN - "The Blood Diamond," about gem smuggling in Africa, could hinder Sierra Leone's postwar recovery as its struggles to legitimize its vital diamond exports, officials in the West African ...

Sierra Leone's "blood diamonds" helped fuel atrocities in the impoverished West African nation in the 1990s. The war has now been over for a decade, and the country's most valuable resource is no ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Diamond mining in Sierra Leone, for years a symbol of the worst form of exploitation of Africa's natural resources, is following a global economic trend with miners turning to ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — A pastor in Sierra Leone has discovered the largest uncut diamond found in more than four decades in this West African country and has turned it over to the government, saying ...

The Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD) in collaboration with the campaign for just mining Task Force, has launched the Diamond Industry Annual Review, at ceremony held at China House, ...

KOIDU, Sierra Leone — His heart’s full of love, and he’s walking on diamonds. But Alassan Kabia’s daily toil -- shoveling the gravel that holds gems -- will never pay enough for him to marry his ...

Blood diamonds, as they were once known, helped fuel atrocities in both Sierra Leone and neighboring Liberia. While no longer termed "conflict... Sierra Leone's "blood diamonds" helped fuel atrocities ...