Mugabe: diamonds are Zimbabwe’s best friend

By Sherilee L Lakmidas, Times Live Zimbabwe's vast resource wealth holds the key to its economic recovery but the ongoing debate over whether its diamonds are tainted threatens to hold the country back.

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Likely to unlock the door to immediate riches, the cleaning up of Zimbabwe's image in the international diamond industry could set it up to become another Botswana, which has built its economy on diamond mining. "The maximum exploitation of Zimbabwe's natural resources will turn the Zimbabwean economy around and, as a nation, we should not wait for Western benevolence," Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe said on Friday. More...

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