All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
ZIMBABWE has placed the blame for not complying with the principles of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KP) on the global diamond trade regulator itself, saying the watchdog has reneged on technical assistance to the country.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
AS members of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme convene in Swakopmund today for a Plenary Meeting that will last until Thursday, various human rights groups calling for the suspension of Zimbabwe from the scheme have dismissed the KPCS as a failure.
Human Rights Watch (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
(Johannesburg) - The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, scheduled to meet in Swakopmund, Namibia, from November 2 to 5, 2009, should immediately suspend Zimbabwe for continuing human rights abuses and widespread smuggling in the Marange diamond fields, Human Rights Watch said today. The government of Zimbabwe has not complied with any of the recommendations put forward in...
Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
... the rich Chiadzwa alluvial diamond field. The government is under heavy pressure from the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme to put the field under the control of private partners and pull military units out of the area. Harare has named several private partners, but companies including the Rapaport Group have said they will boycott Marange diamonds. And South Africa’s...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Government has started withdrawing State security agents deployed to secure the Chiadzwa diamond fields as part of measures to comply with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme recommendations.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
... groups say 200 people were killed. The brutality nearly got Zimbabwe suspended from the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), the global diamond trade body. Earlier this month, the KPCS gave Zimbabwe until June 2010 to implement a plan to bring it up to international standards. But military abuses reportedly continue."Zimbabwe is very bad," says a Somali dealer. He...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
... groups say 200 people were killed. The brutality nearly got Zimbabwe suspended from the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), the global diamond trade body. Earlier this month, the KPCS gave Zimbabwe until June 2010 to implement a plan to bring it up to international standards. But military abuses reportedly continue."Zimbabwe is very bad," says a Somali dealer. He...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Zimbabwe can continue mining diamonds under the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme after the 70-member international diamond trade body accepted that Zimbabwe was reforming its mining practices.
Denford Magora's Zimbabwe Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The reddish-coloured diamonds of Marange in Zimbabwe have now been banned from trading by the Kimberley Certification Process Scheme, but diamonds from the rest of Zimbabwe will continue trading unabated. The Zimbabwe Government says it is earning only US$20 million a month from Marange diamonds, although Gideon Gono of the Zimbabwe Reserve Bank has said that sales of diamonds...
Studiopjj (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Sarah Childress's opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal ( November 6, 2009 ) about trading of Zimbabwean rough diamonds in Mozambique was interesting. Members of the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme issued a toothless statement in Namibia declining ( November 5, 2009 ) to suspend Zimbabwe from the organization over its failure to take strong action on human rights and other...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Zimbabwe's rough diamond trade has escaped a six-month suspension by the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) - an international initiative to stem the flow of conflict diamonds - after its own investigating team recommended earlier in 2009 that the country be temporarily barred from importing and exporting the gems.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Zimbabwe has done everything possible to ensure full compliance with the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme principles, Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu has said.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Last week it was announced that Mugabe's Kimberley Process cronies have decided to give him until June to withdraw the soldiers in the Marange diamond fields. The army runs smuggling operations and use forced labour in mines whose profits benefit Zanu PF. Human Rights Watch exposed the horrors of Marange in June . A task team from the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme...
Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Johannesburg - Investigators for the world's diamond control body say Zimbabwe should be suspended because its security forces are raping women, killing illegal miners and smuggling gems out of a diamond field in the troubled country's east. Human rights groups have made similar accusations, but the charges carry particular weight coming from Kimberley Process investigators who visited Zimbabwe...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
INVESTIGATORS for the world's diamond control body have said Zimbabwe should be suspended from its certification scheme because its security forces are raping women, kil
