By Jason Mitchell Once defined by war and blood diamonds, Sierra Leone is now looking to turn its rich but underdeveloped ...

In December 2001, the Security Council extended for an additional eleven months the ban on imports of rough diamonds from Sierra Leone that did not have a government certificate. The Mine Ban ...

"I decided just to leave." The prosecution for the United Nations–backed Special Court for Sierra Leone has accused Taylor of selling diamonds to finance the RUF. Koroma, now editor of an on ...

On July 5, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 1306, which imposed an eighteen-month ban on the trade in rough diamonds from Sierra Leone that did not have a government certificate ...

His Excellency President Dr. Julius Maada Bio today officially launched the 10th Ordinary Session of the African Diamond Producers Association (ADPA) Mining Week, hosted for the first time in Sierra ...