The securitisation of the Marange diamond industry in Zimbabwe represents a deliberate political strategy to engineer an ...

Marange is currently ranked the largest diamond producing deposit on earth ranging over 300 square miles in Chiadzwa, a ward in the Mutare District of Zimbabwe (see Figure 1). Estimated to have ...

Eastern Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond fields, discovered in 2006, have been touted by experts as the world’s biggest diamond find in generations. In 2008, government forces ruthlessly drove out illegal ...

In late 2008 I personally took a decision to expose and unearth horrendous human rights abuses that were taking place in Marange. Hundreds of people had been gunned down in a few weeks, hundreds of ...

A Zimbabwean worker holds a piece of rough diamond from the country's Marange diamond fields, inside a polish and cutting shop in Harare February 10, 2014. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo By Andrew ...

VILLAGERS in Marange are demanding relocation in protest against being put in a restriction camp under the Protected Places and Areas Act (PPAA). The villagers, who said PPAA had subjected the area to ...

Even in winter, areas surrounding the Marange diamond fields in Zimbabwe can be very hot. Characterized by sparely populated acacia and Mopani trees, Marange and its environs used to carry the very ...

Despite numerous human rights violations in the Marange diamond fields, the area is not classified as producing 'blood diamonds'. But by any ordinary definition, it should be. The diamonds are ...

Diamonds worth at least $2bn (£1.26bn) have been stolen by the Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe's ruling elite, international dealers and criminals, in "perhaps the biggest single plunder of diamonds ...

(Johannesburg) – Zimbabwe police and private security guards employed by mining companies in the Marange diamond fields are shooting, beating and unleashing attack dogs on poor, local unlicensed ...