Zimbabwe to Pay for Defense College with Diamonds from Marange Deposits

By Mike Angenent

Zimbabwe is planning to use money received for diamonds from its controversial Marange deposits to pay the Chinese government’s Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group (AFECC) for designing and building a defence college for top military officers.

the Chinese government, will provide Zimbabwe with a $98 million loan (…) [and] will get back its costs with money from diamonds from (…) Marange Read more: http://www.antwerpfacetsonline.be/articles/single/article/zimbabwe-to-pay-for…

OSM: in the meantime, Rio Tinto, which operates the Murowa mine in Zimbabwe (a 78% stake), partners with the Danish Institute on Human Rights

http://www.israelidiamond.co.il/english/News.aspx?boneId=918&objid=9087&a…

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