Africa

Tenders for work in the rest of Africa excluding South Africa

Africa

Tenders for work in the rest of Africa excluding South Africa

AFRICA

Tenders for work in the rest of Africa excluding South Africa

AFRICA

Tenders for work in the rest of Africa excluding South Africa

AFRICA

Tenders for work in the rest of Africa excluding South Africa

Namakwa poised to become Lesotho’s biggest diamond producer – CEO

London-listed junior Namakwa Diamonds has completed its strategic restructuring and expects to become net-cash generative in the second half of the 2012 financial year, CEO Richard Collocott said on Thursday. The company started production from...

AFRICA

Tenders for work in the rest of Africa excluding South Africa

Global Witness pulls out of blood diamond scheme

Campaign group Global Witness has pulled out of the Kimberley Process, a scheme designed to prevent "blood diamonds" from entering the mainstream market, calling the scheme outdated and a failure, almost nine years after its launch. In a damning...

US to maintain ban on Marange diamonds despite Kimberley Process green light

The US says it will continue to enforce its ban on the trading of diamonds from the controversial Marange diamond field, in Zimbabwe, despite the fact that the country has been cleared by the Kimberley Process Certification System (KPCS) to trade...

NGOs slam KP decision on Zimbabwe diamond sales

The decision to allow the export of rough diamonds from the Marange fields was “a pure business deal” and failed to address the risk of the diamond industry financing political violence in Zimbabwe in the lead up to the country’s election...

KPCS meeting should live up to core Kimberley Process mandate

World Federation of Diamond Bourses president Avi Paz made a strong call on Tuesday for the delegations of 75 countries attending the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) plenary to “respect, live up to and abide by” the core mandate...

Gecamines could sell assets to fund overhaul

Democratic Republic of Congo's State-owned mining company Gecamines could put non-strategic assets on the block to help it fund a $930-million drive to become a major producer, the company said on Saturday, though it does not have plans for a...