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		<title>Charles Taylor Convicted of War Crimes against Humanity.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 21:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Taylor convicted of War Crimes against Humanity   In a historic ruling, an international court convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor (pictured below) on Thursday of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity for supporting notoriously brutal rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone in return for “blood diamonds.” &#8220;I am happy that a verdict has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Kony 2012 exposed</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[STOP KONY 2012 The movement was started to raise awareness about the alleged war crimes committed by Ugandan military group the Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army under the leadership of Joseph Kony.Invisible Children aim to make international fugitive Kony famous around the globe, &#8216;not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Line of Marange Conflict Diamonds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time Line of Marange Conflict Diamonds   &#8212; Early 1990’s: De Beers started prospecting the Marange area in the early 1990s but left the country in 2006 after concluding that the deposits were not in line with the firm’s other Africa based activities. &#8212; March 2002 – March 2006: Kimberlitic Searches, a De Beers subsidiary, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabwe diamonds fuel declines in rough diamond prices for De Beers and Alrosa</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Zimbabwe Conflict diamonds enter the markets and fuel a decline in rough diamond pricing Prices of rough diamonds by De Beers and Alrosa in January 2012 in the diamond city saw a decline between 6% and 10%, especially in the low range category because of competition from Zimbabwe stones. Also, the low range diamond boxes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kimberley Process conference call with newly appointed US chair Ambassador Gillian Milovanovic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ambassador Gillian Milovanovic will serve as Chair of the Kimberley Process for 2012 on behalf of the U.S., the first woman to serve in this post. Milovanovic is an appointee of Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Jose W. Fernandez, the office of the State Department Spokesperson announced Thursday.She served as ambassador to Mali [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kimberley process certified blood diamonds banned by Rapaport group</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rapaport Group Calls on Diamond Trade to Avoid Marange Diamonds RapNet extends ban on Marange diamonds, will expel and name members violating policy. RAPAPORT&#8230; PRESS RELEASE, November 22, 2011, New York: The Rapaport Group strongly opposes the recent decision of the Kimberley Process (KP) to allow for the immediate exports from the mining operations Mbada [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabwe to release Blood Diamonds with Kimberley process certification</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;We no longer want anything from anybody&#8217;: Zimbabwean minister&#8217;s vow as regulators allow country to trade diamonds  Zimbabwe ‘will no longer be begging for anything from anybody’, according to its mining minister, after international diamond regulators agreed to let it trade some $2billion (£1.25billion) in diamonds from a field where human rights groups say miners [...]]]></description>
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