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Sample Kimberley Certificate. Diamond export revenues enable every child in Botswana to receive a free education; unheard of in that nations history. But the industry is still tainted by conflict and misery. M ax Rodriguez knows exactly how he is going to propose marriage to his long-term boyfriend, Michael Loper.
He has found, using Google Earth, a secluded garden where he plans to take Loper for a sunset walk. The only thing that troubles him is the issue of the ring. Rodriguez has heard about how diamonds fuel distant conflicts, about the miserable conditions of the miners who wrest the stones from the earth, and he worries.
To Mbuyi Mwanza, a year-old who spends his days shoveling and sifting gravel in small artisanal mines in southwest Democratic Republic of Congo, diamonds symbolize something much more immediate: the opportunity to eat. Mining work is grueling, and he is plagued by backaches, but that is nothing compared with the pain of seeing his family go hungry. His father is blind; his mother abandoned them several years ago. He knows of at least a dozen other boys from his community who have been forced to work in the mines to survive.
Yet the provincial capital, Tshikapa, betrays nothing of the wealth that lies beneath the ground. None of the roads are paved, not even the airport runway. Hundreds of miners die every year in tunnel collapses that are seldom reported because they happen so often. Teachers at government schools demand payment from students to supplement their meager salaries. Many parents choose to send their teenagers to the mines instead. There is no money left for school.
But more than 10 years later, while the process did reduce the number of conflict diamonds on the market, it remains riddled with loopholes, unable to stop many diamonds mined in war zones or under other egregious circumstances from being sold in international markets. Instead of blessings, our diamonds bring us nothing but misfortune. Given the ugly realities of the diamond business, it would be tempting to forgo buying a diamond altogether, or to choose, as Rodriguez eventually did, to purchase a synthetic alternative.
How does that help us? The Kimberley Process has gone some of the way, yet a truly fair-trade system would not only ban diamonds mined in conflict areas but also allow conscientious consumers to buy diamonds that could improve the working and living conditions of artisanal miners like Mwanza. Countries that could not prove that their diamonds were conflict-free could be suspended from the international diamond trade. Conflict diamonds under the Kimberley Process are defined as gemstones sold to fund a rebel movement attempting to overthrow the state—and only that.
So when, in , the Zimbabwean army seized a major diamond deposit in eastern Zimbabwe and massacred more than miners, it was not considered a breach of the Kimberley Process protocols. That's when French national team coach Corinne Diacre announces which players have been selected for the upcoming qualifying matches for the next World Cup. But on the field on Friday for their club practice in Paris, neither player was present. Hamraoui is recovering from injuries to her legs sustained last week in an attack that is roiling the world of French sports.
It was last Thursday, Nov. Suddenly, two hooded men appeared, pulled Hamraoui out of the car, and hit her on both legs with an iron bar, as reported by French sports daily L'Equipe. Six days later Diallo was taken into custody for questioning over the attack. She has denied any involvement, and has since been released.
Investigators made no statement about the release or other suspects, and say the probe continues. The police initially investigated whether the attack was an attempt to secure more playing time for Diallo. As such, the incident could bear similarities to the Tonya Harding scandal , where the U. Hit in the legs with a baton, Kerrigan was forced to withdraw from the U. Figure Skating Championships, paving the way for Harding's victory.
Whatever the outcome of the probe in the French case, the context is quite different. L'Equipe says the two players, who share the same agent, had developed a real friendship over the years — and were happy to be playing for the same club for the first time this season. Hamraoui and Diallo belong to the same group of friends, who play, or have recently played, for the French national team.
They get along great," Sonia Souid, the agent of the two PSG players told L'Equipe a few months ago — a claim seemingly supported by social media posts.
Still L'Equipe , which first reported that Diallo had been a suspect in the attack earlier this week, reported Friday that the two players, had given conflicting reports on Thursday when they were questioned together by prosecutors, with Hamraoui wondering why Diallo had been driving so slowly at the moment that the attackers appeared. Diallo and Hamraoui are both known to have hot tempers. The former was once expelled from the training center of the French club Olympique Lyonnais after physically threatening a player who had made a racist remark.
Hamraoui was also known to have impulsive reactions when she was playing for French team, Saint-Etienne, but is said to have matured during her time at Barcelona. Having shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela, former President Frederik Willem de Klerk was largely credited with courageous leadership and a key role in dismantling apartheid. But his legacy, both before and after the transition, is decidedly mixed.
Reminiscent of the Tom Hanks movie The Terminal , an Argentine student has been "living" in the Madrid international airport for months after changing her return flight to Argentina in the middle of the pandemic and running out of money.
LOG IN. All the diamonds come from the Central African Republic then? With or without it, we bring them where we want. Blood diamonds being offered for sale on Facebook — Photo: via. View the article in original language. Today, it is distributed in countries.
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