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Article

20 Jul 2001

Author:
Rod Mac-Johnson, Gemini News Service

Diamonds are forever in Sierra Leone's Wild East

With a ban on diamond mining in Sierra Leone, announced 18 July, hopes abound that there will now be an end to violence. But the diamond trade is deeply entrenched and some doubt that the ban will work. A Gemini News Service correspondent reports from Kenema - in the heart of Sierra Leone's 'blood diamond' mining region.