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3 days ago · South Africa - Diamonds, Gold, Imperialism: South Africa experienced a transformation between 1870, when the diamond rush to Kimberley began, and 1902, when the South African War ended. Midway between these dates, in 1886, the world’s largest goldfields were discovered on the Witwatersrand.
4 days ago · While the European Union has been gradually building its regulatory and legislative arsenal against conflict minerals, which mostly come from the Great Lakes region ( AMI 435 ), two MEPs held a round table on April 3 to shed light on the situation in Angola.
4 days ago · Or more recently, at the turn of the millennium, damning revelations of the trade in so-called ‘blood diamonds’ fuelling conflict in multiple African states – an issue was eventually addressed by the UN-backed Kimberley Process, a trading scheme that certifies shipments of rough diamonds as ‘conflict-free’.
3 days ago · The Herero and Nama genocide, formerly known also as the ' Herero and Namaqua genocide', was a campaign of ethnic extermination and collective punishment which was waged against the Herero (Ovaherero) and the Nama in German South West Africa (now Namibia) by the German Empire.
1 day ago · Zimbabwe has suffered significant financial losses due to corruption involving rough diamonds, amounting to at least $20 billion, according to veteran economist and former parliament member Eddie Cross. Cross accuses the late Robert Mugabe, who was prime minister from 1980 to 1987, of personally appropriating $1.3 billion from diamond revenues.
1 day ago · Within three weeks, South African and UNITA forces had captured five provincial capitals, including Novo Redondo and Benguela. In response to the South African intervention, Cuba sent 18,000 soldiers as part of a large-scale military intervention nicknamed Operation Carlota in support of the MPLA.
4 days ago · A United Nation’s panel of experts on the Congo, and various rights watchdogs, have said that before. “The US remains concerned about the role that the illicit trade and exploitation of certain minerals, including gold and tantalum mined artisanally and semi-industrially in the African Great Lakes region, continues to play in financing the ...
