During the second half of 2010s and well into the 2020s, the Central African Republic was considered to be world’s only verifiable source of conflict diamonds.

Iewelry, and more specifically diamonds, continue to play a very significant role in India’s remarkable story. The sector is one of its largest export earners and a strategically important manufacturer.

Sierra Leone’s brutal civil conflict helped set in motion the set of forces that led in January 2003 to the launch of the KImberley Process.

The discovery in 1991 of 89 small diamonds in Canada’s Northwest Territory was to set off the largest staking rush in North American history. It also would change the industry.

For diamonds, South Africa has always represented more than the sum of its collective parts. In many respects, it is the birthplace of the diamond industry as we know it today.

The Nambian seabed, rich with high-quality alluvial diamonds, not only helped build an industry, but also a nation.

When the Kimberley Process was established in 2000, Angola was considered one of the three primary sources of conflict diamonds on the world market, alongside Sierra Leone and the DRC. But it also became one of the KP’s most notable success stories.

The serendipitous discovery of massive diamond resources, just months after achieving independence, and then the partnership that developed between the Botswana government and De Beers, were in many respects the most important factors that set the nation apart from most other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, turning it into the poster child for diamond development.

For more than a decade, Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond fields were a cautionary tale about power politics, poor government and corporate governance, violent suppression and systemic corruption.Today, however, the alluvial deposits also offer the possibility of redemption and hope.