Report Exposes Exploitation of Zimbabwe's Vast Diamond Riches
Powerful military and political elites and security forces have controlled and secretly exploited Zimbabwe's once promising diamond sector, while concealing the scale of the loss to its people, a new Global Witness report reveals.
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12 September 2017
The State, The Security Forces, And A Decade of Disappearing Diamonds in Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe: Marange Gems Plot Thickens
Zimbabwe Standard, 18 June 2017
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InFocus
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At least on person has been killed and three others seriously injured when Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company Private Limited security guards fired at hundreds of illegal ... Read more »
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Even though President Robert Mugabe accuses the Chinese of looting U.S$15 billion in diamond proceeds, his wife has received U.S.$7 million from one of the Chinese mining companies ... Read more »
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Do you understand how the price of gold and diamonds is determined? Now that the World Bank has warned of a decline in the price for at least two years, it is crucial to follow the ... Read more »
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Mbada Diamonds could have denied Zimbabwe of millions of dollars in revenue by under-declaring its diamond sales over the years after it emerged that its average price per carat ... Read more »
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The Chinese diamond mining firm, Jinan Mining, was said to have externalised US$546 million through an offshore transaction. Although the matter was reported to police for ... Read more »
