GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — In a village outside Botswana 's capital, Keorapetse Koko sat on an aging couch in her sparsely furnished home, stunned that a career — and an entire nation's economy — built ...

Growing interest around the world for laboratory-grown diamonds poses both threats and opportunities for African economies that depend on their own natural gems. More and more jewellery lovers are ...

In the cathedral-like atmosphere of the world’s diamond headquarters, where aged Havana leaf burns like incense and merchants converse in hushed tones, a change is slowly taking place. The De Beers ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — In a village outside Botswana ’s capital, Keorapetse Koko sat on an aging couch in her sparsely furnished home, stunned that a career — and an entire nation’s economy — built ...

To experience the power of De Beers Group, the South Africa°©based company that has dominated the diamond industry for more than a century, one has only to peer over the edge of the open-pit Jwaneng ...