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 ...

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 ...

Growing interest around the world for laboratory-grown diamonds poses both threats and opportunities for African economies that depend on their own natural gems. More and more jewellery lovers are ...

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 ...

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