Despite industry claims, there are few controls to prevent diamond sales from financing violence and abuse around the world.

Sierra Leone—the setting for much of the film Blood Diamond—has improved as well, though the country’s recent Ebola outbreak set back some of that progress. Consumers who care can trace the ...

Workers in Koidu, Sierra Leone spent their days sifting through dirt, hoping to find a life-changing diamond. © 2024 Fortune Media IP Limited. All Rights Reserved ...

The United States and its Western allies are feuding with Russia over its diamond production, but they joined forces Wednesday to keep supporting the Kimberley Process, which aims to eliminate the ...

Sierra Leone, which was among top 10 diamond producers until 2013 with 608,955 carats of production, exported diamonds worth $221.67 million in2014. The project, a 79.9sqkm diamond mining site is ...