In this article, policy adviser and former De Beers Botswana CEO Sheila Khama writes De Beers' exploration in Angola and asks ...

Jacques addresses the significance of the astounding Lucara Diamond recently discovered, and GIA's work helping dealers, ...

Botswana’s new president, Duma Boko, picked Bogolo Kenewendo to be mines minister as his administration moves to cement a ...

De Beers' CEO expresses confidence in finalizing a new diamond sales agreement with Botswana shortly. The agreement follows criticism from Botswana's President Duma Boko of previous negotiations but ...

The CE of global diamonds giant De Beers, Al Cook, said that his company expected negotiations with Botswana's government ...

De Beers' CEO said he expected negotiations on a new diamond sales pact with Botswana's government to be wrapped up within ...

That's largely because of a global downturn in demand for mined diamonds, which Botswana's economy relies on. Unemployment in the nation of some 2.5 million people has risen to 27% this year ...

To wit, the elections in Botswana and Mozambique both bore the spells cast by what development economists dub the “resource ...

Natural light streams in from a wall-to-wall window where Eric, a diamond cutter (whose surname must remain a secret), is preparing a 782-carat rough diamond the size of a baseball to be sliced by an ...

This election comes amid new economic uncertainty for Botswana, which relies heavily on diamond mining but is seeing decreased revenue because of a downturn in demand.

It is the largest diamond mine in the world. The gems that have made Botswana a model African state have been mined here since 1971. When Botswana achieved independence in 1966, only 40 people in ...

Dr Ross Harvey Harvey said that Botswana is struggling to diversify its economy away from diamonds, and although it has made some progress in beneficiation; “a country cannot rely forever on a ...