Marange Diamonds

Air Zimbabwe board chairman Jonathan Kadzura has dismissed reports that the embattled airline purchased state-of-the-art aircraft from a French aircraft manufacturer, in a deal estimated at US$500 million.
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Zimbabwe police and private security guards employed by mining companies in the Marange diamond fields are shooting, beating and unleashing attack dogs on poor, local unlicensed miners.
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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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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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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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President Robert Mugabe vowed Tuesday that the country would go ahead with diamond sales that were banned earlier this year because of rights violations at its largest mines.
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By Godfrey Marawanyika HARARE — Zimbabwe has met minimum human rights standards in its diamond fields, an international monitor said in a report on Tuesday, bringing the country a step closer to resuming international trade in the gems.…
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By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE, (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has banned all diamond exports, including from a Rio Tinto unit, until gemstones from its controversial Marange fields are certified by the Kimberley Process, the mines minister said on…
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The Zimbabwe High Court has approved the sale of diamonds from a field plagued by human rights abuses, as Harare moved to defy the Kimberley Process, reports state-run media. The sale of 300, 000 carats of diamonds from the eastern Marange…
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HARARE— Lawmakers investigating alleged illegal diamond mining in eastern Zimbabwe say police stopped them touring the diamond workings. Lawmaker Moses Mare says 13 legislators from both parties in the coalition government spent Tuesday…
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