A huge so-called “peace diamond” sold by the government of Sierra Leone to discourage crime-tainted “blood diamonds” fetched $6.5 million on Monday. The 709-carat stone, which was unearthed in March, ...

Sierra Leone said on Saturday it had discovered a diamond worth $6.2 million, declaring it one of the most precious finds of the past decade. The stone, dug up last week in the eastern district of ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - The Hollywood movie "The Blood Diamond" about gem smuggling in Africa could hinder Sierra Leone's postwar recovery as its struggles to legitimize its vital diamond exports, ...

They were promised a "peace diamond" dividend in the Sierra Leone village of Koryardu after the stone they handed over for auction fetched $6.5 million (5.7 million euros) a year ago. "Absolutely ...

Sierra Leone's "blood diamonds" helped fuel atrocities in the impoverished West African nation in the 1990s. The war has now been over for a decade, and the country's most valuable resource is no ...

Ask most people in the UK what they associate with the small west African nation of Sierra Leone, and it's likely it will be one of three things: blood diamonds, Ebola, or the country's civil war, ...

As it pieces together its shattered mining sector after a 10-year civil war fuelled by so-called ”blood diamonds”, Sierra Leone is turning attention to processing its uncut gemstones. For years, the ...

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor looks down as he waits for the start of a hearing to receive a verdict in a court room of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, near The Hague, ...

FREETOWN, Sierra LeoneFREETOWN, Sierra Leone — A Sierra Leone court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for a top ally of former Liberian President Charles Taylor who was recently found living in ...

THE government of Sierra Leone said Thursday it would seek higher offers in Belgium for a massive 709-carat diamond found by an Evangelical preacher after underwhelming offers at auction at home. A ...

The 709-carat stone, which was unearthed in March, is the largest discovered in Sierra Leone in almost a half-century and is between the 10th and 15th largest ever found worldwide, experts say. Found ...