'By the grace of God': Miners dig on as lab-grown diamonds change market

The rising popularity of lab-grown diamonds has caused a big fall in the price of the mined gems. In the West African nation ...
AOL

‘We are more than blood diamonds and Ebola’: Sierra Leone seeks investment in a post-aid world

Ask most people in the UK what they associate with the small west African nation of Sierra Leone, and it’s likely it will be one of three things: blood diamonds, Ebola, or the country’s civil war, ...
Capital Public Radio

Sierra Leone's Diamonds Still A Source Of Contention

Sierra Leone's "blood diamonds" helped fuel atrocities in the impoverished West African nation in the 1990s. The war has now been over for a decade, and the country's most valuable resource is no ...
Reuters

Sierra Leone frets over Blood Diamond image

FREETOWN (Reuters) - The Hollywood movie "The Blood Diamond" about gem smuggling in Africa could hinder Sierra Leone's postwar recovery as its struggles to legitimize its vital diamond exports, ...
saudigazette

Giant diamond auction fails as Sierra Leone rejects $7.77m

THE government of Sierra Leone said Thursday it would seek higher offers in Belgium for a massive 709-carat diamond found by an Evangelical preacher after underwhelming offers at auction at home. A ...
Time

Global Justice: A Step Forward with the Conviction of Charles Taylor and Blood Diamonds

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor looks down as he waits for the start of a hearing to receive a verdict in a court room of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, near The Hague, ...