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Angola: Diamond Prospecting Community to Benefit From Social Projects
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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
30 June 2008
Posted to the web 1 July 2008
Luanda
Communities that carry out illegal diamond mining on the border between Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will benefit from social projects meant to improve their living conditions, informed this Monday here the deputy minister of Geology and Mining, Makenda Ambroise.
According to that official, who attended the interception meeting on the kimberlite process, held in India on June 17-19, the project, an initiative of Belgium, will cover communities from Sierra Leone and of the border between Venezuela and Brazil.
The first results of the implementation of the above mentioned project will be analysed at a seminar set for next September, in South Africa.
Speaking to ANGOP, at Luanda "4 de Fevereiro" Internatioanl Airport, Makenda Ambroise said that India's meeting aimed at preparing a plenary session marked for next November, in Namibia, and debated matters relating to the various supervision and control missions of the kimberlite process.
In this forum, he said, Angola as the co-ordinator of the diamond alluvium group presented a report on the inventories that produce alluvium diamonds in Africa and worldwide.
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Mkenda Ambroise announced that a supervising team of Namibia is expected to visit Angola country late this year.
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