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Jun 29 2009, Robb

The Marange diamond fields in Zimbabwe are allegedly losing hundred of thousands of US dollars worth every week. That is, if we chose to believe the RBZ Governor, Gideon Gono.

Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono has said that the country was losing...

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People walk past human rights protesters gathered outside Graff diamonds store in central London, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009, in a demonstration calling on Graff to pull out of a controversial diamond mine planned on the land of the Kalahari bushmen in...