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 ...

Offshore diamond prospecting threatens a fishing community in South Africa, while un-checked mining for the precious stones on land is silting up rivers in Zimbabwe. In Nigeria, serial polluter Shell ...

In the cathedral-like atmosphere of the world’s diamond headquarters, where aged Havana leaf burns like incense and merchants converse in hushed tones, a change is slowly taking place. The De Beers ...

Africa stands as one of Earth's most resource-rich regions when it comes to natural treasures and raw materials. This massive continent holds an impressive collection of gemstones - featuring diamonds ...

Bracing against the vibrations of the jackhammer, illicit diamond miner Jefferson Ncube bores steadily into the rock face before him, sending chunks of dry stone clattering to the ground and filling ...

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 ...