Kimberley Process

Never has there been so much pressure for the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme to reform itself than now, since its formation. Launched in January 2003, to prevent the trade in diamonds that fund conflict, the KP scheme has had its…
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Close on the heels of the US and the EU issuing warning to India, the World Diamond Council (WDC) has asked all the members in the international diamond community to refrain from trading in rough diamonds from Zimbabwe until the situation…
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Countering reports that the Kimberley Process has given Zimbabwe a green light to sell diamonds from the controversial Marange field, the World Diamond Council says such exports have not yet received formal and final approval.
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Zimbabwe will hold two auctions this year to sell its stockpile of diamonds mined between 2006 and 2009. The country was granted permission to conduct sales and export diamonds by the Kimberley Process.
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Johannesburg - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's wife was among those who gained millions of dollars from illegal diamonds mined in the east of the country, according to a US cable obtained by WikiLeaks.
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JERUSALEM- Zimbabwe plans to resume selling diamonds from its controversial Marange fields within days, saying it fully meets the standards required by the body that regulates trade in conflict diamonds. "We have done everything in our…
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Johannesburg – With Zimbabwe’s diamond industry still shrouded in secrecy, the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) and three Zimbabweans have petitioned South Africa’s New Reclamation Group for access to information that will shed some…
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Diamond output in Marange is expected to reach 40 million carats in the next three years, with annual government revenues calculated at around US$2 billion.
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A diamond firm operating from Zimbabwe's Marange diamond fields has begun constructing a multi-million dollar cutting and polishing centre in the country.
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The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition calls on the government of Zimbabwe to urgently put in place the necessary measures to ensure transparency and accountability to the people of Zimbabwe on the extraction of Marange diamonds and how their…
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