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Zimbabwe diamond sales ban urged

Source: BBC
Harare : Zimbabwe | 22 days ago  
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe meets his Democratic Republic of ...
Rights groups are lobbying members of the Kimberly Process, the body which regulates the trade in rough diamonds, to halt exports from Zimbabwe. Activists say soldiers have killed about 200 people at a diamond field...Namibia's government is a close ally of Zimbabwe's President...
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    Windhoek, Nov 2 (DPA) Pressure was mounting Monday on the international watchdog set up to combat so-called conflict diamonds, the Kimberley Process (KP) to suspend Zimbabwe from the global diamond trade over alleged human rights abuses ...
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