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Diamond bill not everybody’s best friend

Implemented in late summer, a new law on the diamond trade in Angola already has its opponents. The grumbling comes [...]

Published on 11.10.2016 at 03:30 GMT

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Dos Santos clan keeps tight reign over its diamonds

With president Jose Eduardo dos Santos about to step down from office, his clan is busy forming a strategy to [...]

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Dos Santos clan fine-tunes strategy to revive mining sector

To compensate for the drop in oil revenue, Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos has asked his mines minister, Francisco Queiroz, who has worked with him for three decades, to oversee an ambitious plan to breathe new life into Angola's [.

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Angola
Sodiam brings garimpeiros in from cold

Rather than having its notorious security firm Alfa-5 crack down violently on them (AMI 333), the state-owned diamond firm Endiama [...]

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Angola
Leviev back to help diamonds thrive anew

Having participated through the Angola Selling Corp (Ascorp) in marketing Angola’s diamonds between 1999 and 2004, the Israeli magnate Lev [...]

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Angola
Gaydmak’s revenge against Leviev

The Russian-born Israeli businessman Arcadi Gaydamak won an important first round in his legal battle against diamond trader Lev Leviev [...]

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How Private Security Bullies Rule Cuango Region

Appearing in July. a report entitled "Diamonds of Humiliation and Misery," which was written by Angolan journalist Rafael Marques and described how three private security companies use violence to cow small-scale miners ("garimpeiros") in the Cuango region of Angola, has [.

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Dos Santos clan keeps tight reign over its diamonds

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