Blood diamond curbs to be extended

Ten years ago, the share of conflict diamonds in world output was as high as 10%. Now - thanks in part to the Kimberley Process and also to the spread of peace across Southern Africa - that number is less than 1%.

At the start of November, members of the Kimberley Process (KP) met in Brussels for its fifth annual meeting.

The KP was set up for just one thing, to try and eradicate the trade in blood diamonds, which had funded so much warfare and atrocities in places such as Angola at the end of the last century. But has it been a success? Well it appears so...

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