The GemFair program was created to empower Sierra Leone's artisanal miners, and showcase the often-overlooked white and ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Diamond mining in Sierra Leone, for years a symbol of the worst form of exploitation of Africa's natural resources, is following a global economic trend with miners turning to ...

A pastor in Sierra Leone has unearthed one of the largest uncut diamonds found in the region to date – a 706-carat alluvial diamond. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or ...

Evangelical preacher Emmanuel Momoh prayed for five years that he would discover the diamond he needed to pull his family out of poverty in eastern Sierra Leone. The 39-year-old pastor obtained his ...

KOIDU, Sierra Leone, April 4 (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's only pit diamond mine has come far from its origins as wartime booty presented to mercenaries by a grateful military junta. Seventeen years and ...

A pastor working in the mines of eastern Sierra Leone has unearthed a 706-carat diamond, the government said today, pledging to hold a transparent auction for the gem in a nation once tainted by ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Officials say a deadly strike at a Sierra Leone diamond mine is now over. Two people were killed in the violence at the mine in Koidu in eastern Sierra Leone, where ...