(Reuters) - At least six people were killed when an artisanal diamond mine in Democratic Republic of Congo's Kasai province caved in, a provincial official said on Thursday, adding that there could be ...

MBUJI-MAYI, Congo (AP) — Flight 530 into Mbuji-Mayi comes so loaded with sacks of Congolese currency to buy diamonds that the passengers sometimes have to fly with their luggage on their laps. Local ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Diamond Mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to 2020" report to their offering. The 'Diamond Mining in the ...

KINSHASA, CONGO - Millions of dollars in smuggled central African diamonds are being routed through Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates to evade controls at the world’s main diamond market, ...

In a 2013 file photo, a trader inspects a diamond during a show at the trading floor of Israel's Diamond Exchange (IDE) in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv, Israel. REUTERS/Nir Elias DAKAR, Dec 21 (Thomson ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - At least 10 miners were killed when a diamond mine in central Democratic Republic of Congo caved in, a local official said on Thursday. The victims, miners working on a concession ...

Further investigations traced some of the diamonds to a firm in the UAE, which sold the diamonds and took a commission for that. In eastern Congo (North Kivu province) M23 (March 23 Movement) rebels ...

MOSCOW, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Russia's Alrosa ALRS.MM, the world's largest diamond producer, will build up its cooperation with state-controlled diamond company Bakwanga, known as MIBA, in the Democratic ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo plans to make the cleaning of rough diamonds compulsory before export as part of a wider drive to raise minerals revenues, officials said. The ...

Katanga’s Moise Tshombe is not the only secessionist to break off a piece of the Congo and call it his own. He is merely the richest. In the backcountry, other little fiefs have declared themselves ...