At least one million African workers earn pennies a day in the backbreaking effort to find diamonds, which themselves have no intrinsic value at all, but serve as symbols of love, wealth and power, ...

Charges against one man accused in February of smuggling what authorities claimed were "conflict diamonds" and attempting to sell them in Tucson will be dropped. Charges against a second will be ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — In a village outside Botswana ’s capital, Keorapetse Koko sat on an aging couch in her sparsely furnished home, stunned that a career — and an entire nation’s economy — built ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel is set to lead a group working to stop militants in Africa using the roughly $6 billion trade in so-called blood or conflict diamonds to fund fighting, the Israel Diamond ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — In a village outside Botswana ’s capital, Keorapetse Koko sat on an aging couch in her sparsely furnished home, stunned that a career — and an entire nation’s economy — built ...

Across southern Africa, falling production of natural diamonds and revenue have led to job cuts and financial strain. To counter the trend, Botswana, Angola, Namibia, South Africa and Congo in June ...