HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A world monitoring group on conflict diamonds said Wednesday it wants restrictions on the sale of Zimbabwe diamonds tightened after calls to relax them by diamond companies in ...

* Gem exports to start within three months under KP monitor * Zimbabwe has stockpiled over 4 mln carats * Diamond revenue to boost struggling economy By Nelson Banya HARARE, July 16 (Reuters) - ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe began selling hundreds of thousands of carats of rough diamonds Wednesday that were mined from an area where human rights groups say soldiers killed 200 people, raped wom ...

The question of whether and how diamonds from Zimbabwe’s rich Marange field should enter world markets has driven a wedge through the Kimberley Process. The meeting in Kinshasa was called in a bid to ...

ZIMBABWE'S diamond revenues may rise 47 percent this year, indicating the country could have been "fleeced" from its previous diamond sales, a research report has said. Diamond revenues were also ...

The access was granted by Red Mercury, a company owned by the Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust, which has received an undertaking from the government of Zimbabwe for a licence to mine ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — On July 12 a judge in Zimbabwe freed on bail a human rights activist jailed for more than five weeks on allegations of passing false information on diamond-mining violations to ...

HARARE- Zimbabwe will now allow two more private companies to explore and mine diamonds in the country, bringing to four the number of firms that will operate in the sector, mines minister Winston ...

President Robert Mugabe on Monday castigated western nations that he said imposed sanctions on Harare and were using the so-called targeted measures to stop Marange diamonds from being marketed ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union agreed on Tuesday to lift sanctions on a Zimbabwean diamond-mining firm despite concerns over alleged fraud in a July election that kept President Robert Mugabe ...