Koidu Limited, Sierra Leone’s largest diamond producer, has halted operations and laid off nearly its entire local workforce of more than 1,000 employees following a protracted dispute over pay and ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – Officials say a deadly strike at a Sierra Leone diamond mine is now over. Two people were killed in the violence at the mine in Koidu in eastern Sierra Leone ...

Hundreds of thousands of artisanal diamond miners like James take their shovels and sieves each morning to the mineral-rich terrain in Sierra Leone’s Wild East region surrounding Koidu ...

These are the miners who pull the world's most valuable ... dug up from the dirt surrounding Kono, the epicentre of Sierra Leone's diamond region, since the stones were discovered in the 1930s.

Koidu — In Sierra Leone plummeting diamond prices ... Profits are plummeting for artisanal miners and large-scale corporate diamond mining firms, which have drastically cut staff across the ...

Residents of Koidu, in eastern Sierra Leone, are suing the operators of a diamond mine they say has polluted the environment, damaged homes, and cost many their livelihoods. The mine’s owners ...

“I too have to have faith,” he said. If the government failed, so too would his plan to change the economics of diamond mining in Sierra Leone. But four months later, after national elections ...

FREETOWN, March 20 (Reuters) - Diamond mining in Sierra Leone, for years a symbol of the worst form of exploitation of Africa's natural resources, is following a global economic trend with miners ...

Most mining firms rely on their own diesel supplies to extract iron ore, diamonds, rutile and bauxite in the resource-rich country. Sierra Leone would require them to switch over to the grid by ...