Illicit diamonds: Africa's curse
Just as the history of Arab States is intimately tied to the discovery of oil in the region, the discovery of diamonds in Africa has not only impacted ......(Continue Reading)

Gems of war: scientists struggle to identify conflict diamonds
Diamonds are offered across the globe as tokens of love and devotion. However, behind the beauty of some of these intricately hewn carbon crystals lies ......(Continue Reading)

Diamonds in the rough: the world now recognizes the need to control 'conflict' diamonds. Janine Roberts welcomes the progress but argues that the poor
DUST swirled across razor wire over the vast shantytown and engulfed me. It encrusted my lips, got into my eyes. The dust was kimberlite, a grey rock ......(Continue Reading)

Bloody diamonds - Updates - precious stones finance revolutionary wars in Africa - Brief Article
Would you buy glittering diamonds if you knew he profits from them fueled terror wars in Sierra Leone, Angola or the Congo? (see "Diamonds Aren't Forever," ......(Continue Reading)

`Conflict diamonds' could lose sparkle: an international tracking and certification plan should significantly decrease the trade in `conflict diamonds'
The Bush administration as well as human-rights activists on Capitol Hill and the jewelry industry are encouraging an international diamond-tracking ......(Continue Reading)

Political Islam in West Africa and the Sahel
SINCE 9/11, defense of the homeland has become a particularly urgent issue for U.S. military planners. Consequently, foreign policy has shifted to address ......(Continue Reading)

The emergence of Africa: the Subsaharan attempt to join the emerging markets club
After 2005's proclamation by the official aid and development community as the "year of Africa" spurred a flurry of headline initiatives that ......(Continue Reading)

Africa still being tapped by the West
The world's big powers are still "scrambling for Africa"--not just to provide humanitarian assistance, but to tap into the continent for its ......(Continue Reading)

Retailers still sell conflict diamonds
Shops are not doing enough to prevent customers buying diamonds from war-torn countries, according to a report. Amnesty International UK and Global Witness said 31 per cent of 42 British retailers...(Continue Reading)

Severing Liberia's sinews of war: the U.N. is preparing new sanctions against Liberia's strongman Charles Taylor, who seized that African country's profitable
Emperors and warlords from Alexander the Great to Napoleon all understood that to wage war they needed both men and money. The French call it le nerf ......(Continue Reading)