Sentence examples for richest diamond from inspiring English sources

They have not allowed peacekeepers to move into the areas with the richest diamond mines, which are centered on Koidu.

Though Cafunfo sits in the middle of one of the world's richest diamond fields, most people eat nothing but funge, a barely-nutritious dough made from cassava roots.

Gen. Vijay Kumar Jetley, ordered some of his troops into the richest diamond mining area, around Kono, in eastern Sierra Leone.

The area where Foday lives has some of the richest diamond mines on Earth, yet it is also the poorest region in Sierra Leone.

"President Taylor is actively involved in fueling the violence in Sierra Leone," the report said as it detailed the links between him and Sierra Leone's rebels, who control some of that country's richest diamond mining areas.

His fighters seized control of the Cuango River valley, Angola's richest diamond territory, and began a major mining operation that more than compensated for the lost cold-war aid, and made them the richest rebels in Africa.

Yaakov Weiss, a geochemist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is investigating the origins of these rich diamond mines.

The victorious Angolan rebels soon turned on one another, and a sprawling conflict, stoked by cold war rivalries and Angola's rich diamond deposits, flattened the country.

After decades of civil war fueled in part by the country's rich diamond deposits, Angola has been at peace for the last decade, and it has prospered mightily.

Zimbabwe has 11,000 troops deployed, many of them defending the rich diamond mines, whose profits are now being managed by a coalition of Congolese and Zimbabwean generals.

Earlier, he visited a disarmament camp in Port Loko, north of Freetown, close to an area controlled by the Revolutionary United Front rebels, known as the R.U.F., who also control rich diamond mines in the east.