In Sierra Leone, the government, donors, non-governmental organizations and the United Nations are trying to turn so-called "blood diamonds" into "development diamonds." The precious gems fueled ...

Diamonds led to a decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone with rebels forcing civilians to mine gems and buying weapons with the profits, giving birth to the term "blood diamonds." The war ended in ...

Sierra Leone’s war helped prompt the U.N.-organized Kimberly Process launched in 2003 to ensure “blood” or “conflict” diamonds are not sold on the black market to buy weapons.

Once defined by war and blood diamonds, Sierra Leone is now looking to turn its rich but underdeveloped mineral base – iron ore, gold, rutile and bauxite – into a driver of economic recovery ...

The west African state of Sierra Leone has taken another symbolic step away from its wartime image as the home of the "blood diamond". An Israeli-owned company has started operating a big new ...

Blood diamonds, as they were once known, helped fuel atrocities in both Sierra Leone and neighboring Liberia. While no longer termed "conflict... Sierra Leone's Diamonds Still A Source Of ...

CNN: For a lot of people, when they hear Sierra Leone they wonder about the diamonds. They wonder about whether or not the idea of a 'blood diamond' is something of the past. What do you say to that?

Sierra Leone's "blood diamonds" helped fuel atrocities in the impoverished West African nation in the 1990s. The war has now been over for a decade, and the country's most valuable resource is no ...