Marange Diamonds

Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) in the diamond watchdog group, the Kimberley Process, is today expected to release a damning report showing Zimbabwe has since 2008 lost over $2 billion in what it says is the continuing plunder of the…
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A mysterious Chinese businessman based in Hong Kong is quietly providing financing to Zimbabwe’s ruling forces in return for access to its diamond mines and opportunities in property development.
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Human rights activist Farai Maguwu who has put his life on the line researching and documenting horrific abuses in the Marange diamond fields is the guest on Question Time and answers questions from SW Radio Africa listeners.
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FINANCE minister, Tendai Biti, has accused a small coterie of powerful Zimbabweans of looting diamonds from Marange, enabling themselves to splash millions of dollars on private jets while ordinary people wallowed in abject poverty.
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It is also crucial to evaluate the implementation of the Kinshasa agreement reached between Zimbabwe and the Kimberly Process in Kinshasa in November 2011 in light of the continuation of massive smuggling of diamonds.
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It gives me great pleasure to outline a new sustainable vision for the way forward in Zimbabwe as we continue to build a country of excellence. It’s people like you that fought for jobs and opportunity for generations of Zimbabwean…
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HARARE - As the Daily News tries to unravel Mines minister Obert Moses Mpofu's proposed acquisition of the financially-crippled Zimbabwe Allied Banking Group (ZABG), we hereby present a fact sheet on him.
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In 2008 the Zimbabwean army took control of the Marange diamond fields using troops and helicopter gunships, killing and wounding many small scale miners in the process. Since then diamond mining concessions have been allocated to several…
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Democratic transition has not occurred in Zimbabwe in spite of the fact that Mugabe and ZANU-PF have previously lost elections. And the reason is clear. The security sector, which for the past decade or so has been running government…
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Diamonds from Zimbabwe's notorious Marange field have been sold for the first time since the international ban on the country's 'blood diamonds' was lifted. It is reported the notorious state security agency (CIO) will benefit from the…
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