Marange

On the 25th of October MDC-T MP for Bulawayo South Eddie Cross tabled a motion in Parliament calling for the diamond mines in Marange to be nationalised. Ever since the MP says he has received several threats.
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The United States Government takes note of recent judicial verdicts and sentences holding accountable the perpetrators of political violence in 2008 and 2009. The U.S. commends the police officers, prosecutors, judges, and magistrates who…
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Zimbabwe’s Minister of Mines and Mining Development, Obert Mpofu was described as a ‘crook’ and a ‘thief’ by Zanu PF MP Edward Chindori-Chininga who was formerly the Minister of Mines.
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A BBC Panorama documentary broadcast Monday evening firmly put the spotlight on abuses in the Marange diamond fields. According to the 30 minute report Zimbabwe's military and police are running secret torture camps in the diamond mining…
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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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Andrew Moyo HARARE – A private investor is looking to construct a runway at the controversial Marange diamond field in eastern Zimbabwe to ensure secure movement of the gemstones to a handling facility being built in Harare. A top…
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has started withdrawing soldiers from diamond fields in the east of the country after recommendations by the Kimberly Process and criticism over rights abuses, state media reported on Thursday. The government…
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By Jane Fields in Vila De Manica, Mozambique THE young dealer in a cap fiddles with his BlackBerry. As he reaches for a beer, I see the stone he's holding. His companion, a Malian, turns to me on this terrace in central Mozambique. "You…
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The Rapaport Group and the RapNet Diamond Trading Network announced today in its Rapaport Tradewire® publication that it is “implementing an immediate trading ban on all diamonds from Zimbabwe due to severe human rights violations in…
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Zimbabwe has escaped suspension from the Kimberly process - the certification scheme which regulates the sale of so-called blood diamonds. Instead, the 70-member international diamond trade body has agreed to give Zimbabwe more time to…
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