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RAPAPORT... The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has leapfrogged Belgium as the world’s largest exporter of rough diamonds, officials in Dubai said during a week of international jewelry events in the city. The local industry has capitalized on other diamond centers’ Covid-19 downturns, as well...

Botswana is lobbying to host the permanent secretariat of the Kimberley Process diamond certification scheme, with Austria and China also in the race. President Masisi used a recent EU-AU summit to

The UAE topped the list of rough diamond centers in the world, after the volume of trades in this sector in the country exceeded $22.8 billion during 2021, according to Ahmed bin Sulayem, Senior CEO and Executive Director of the Dubai Multi Commodities Center, who confirmed that the diamond sector is the largest in the world.

We were very saddened to receive the news of the passing away of Mrs. Dorothée Gizenga, founding Executive Director of the Diamond Development Initiative (DDI), now part of Resolve. Mrs. Gizenga passed away of complications from diabetes on February 18 in Kinshasa. She was a leader in the campaign to end conflict diamonds from the start when the Kimberley Process was established and was a tireless advocate on behalf of the world’s 1.5 million artisanal diamond miners as executive director of ...

Dr M'zée Fula Ngenge became Africa’s highest-ranking diamond administrator by serving as Chairman of the African Diamond Council (ADC). After celebrating 40 years in the global diamond industry this month, this experienced Mining Engineer...

One of the most profitable global criminal enterprises is one you might not expect. It is crimes like illegal fishing and logging, waste trafficking and trade in wildlife — and the financial sector is reaping huge rewards from these assaults against the natural environment on which we depend. It is difficult to overstate the damage environmental crimes cause. By destroying ecosystems and depleting natural assets, such crimes destroy livelihoods, undermine governing institutions and impede our ...

Paulo Mvika is a Mining Engineer, a graduated from the University of Friendship with the Peoples of Moscow, Russia, in 1990; he has a Post Graduate Diploma in Economic Evaluation of Mining Projects from the National Higher School of Mines in Paris, France...

AMSTERDAM — One of the most profitable global criminal enterprises is one you might not expect. It is crimes like illegal fishing and logging, waste trafficking  and trade in wildlife. And the financial sector is reaping huge rewards from these assaults against the natural environment on which we depend.It is difficult to overstate the damage environmental crimes cause. By

AMSTERDAM — One of the most profitable global criminal enterprises is one you might not expect. It is crimes like illegal fishing and logging, waste trafficking  and trade in wildlife. And the financial sector is reaping huge rewards from these assaults against the natural environment on which we depend.It is difficult to overstate the damage environmental crimes cause. By

He had been appointed acting-Zimra commissioner-general before being jettisoned within two days.