PRESS RELEASE   March 1, 2011.   North Kivu Province, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo   Die By The Bullet Or Die By Starvation: Is That The Stark Choice? For the first time, people of the Congo speak out about The Dodd Frank Bill that aims to stop the sale of conflict minerals into the

As reported in the Professional Jeweller by Kat Slowe Zimbabwe’s Zanu PF political and military elite are seeking to capture the country’s diamond wealth through a combination of state-sponsored violence and legally questionable opaque joint-venture companies, claimed new Global Witness report ‘Return of the blood diamonds’. The report criticised the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, set