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 ...

Once defined by war and blood diamonds, Sierra Leone is now looking to turn its rich but underdeveloped mineral base – iron ore, gold, rutile and bauxite – into a driver of economic recovery ...

A 709-carat diamond, found in Sierra Leone and known as the "Peace Diamond." Reuters Sierra Leone hopes to raise millions of dollars for development projects by auctioning a huge uncut diamond ...

Sierra Leone's government is auctioning off the second largest diamond ever discovered in the country with the promise that a majority of the proceeds will benefit development projects—which it ...

From her first trip to Sierra Leone, Africa she recalls meeting a boy named Pende whose entire family was killed and was forced to fight as a member of the West Side Boys faction in the diamond ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Officials say a 709-carat diamond found in Sierra Leone has been sold for more than $6.5 million. The diamond is said to be the 14th-largest ever discovered ...

Koidu Limited, Sierra Leone’s largest diamond producer, has halted operations and laid off nearly its entire local workforce of more than 1,000 employees following a protracted dispute over pay and ...

“Diamonds From The Sierra Leone,” released in May 2005, was a promotional single for Late Registration, West’s second studio album that arrived just months later. For the song, Ye hoped to a ...

Every day, 46-year-old Dia walks into the jungle to seek exhausting, dangerous and precarious work in the diamond pits that pockmark the landscape of Kono District in eastern Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone's labour ministry has received copies of summary dismissal letters for more than 1,000 employees, it said in a statement on May 6. Kainessie told Reuters that workers had only been ...