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- Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Diamond – the Good News

Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Diamond – the Good News
AllAfrica.com – Nov 28, 2006
Thanks to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme – a voluntary intergovernmental self-regulatory scheme for diamond exporting countries which came into force in January 2003. Named after the South African town in which the pact was negotiated in May 2000, the Kimberley Process is a worldwide certification scheme that seeks to regulate the international trade in rough diamonds and eradicate the link between blood diamond and civil wars. In essence, diamond-exporting countries should sell their diamonds only to other KPCS participating countries and certify that their diamonds are clean and blood-free. Since Sierra Leone started participating in the scheme, there has been a whopping increase in government revenue from its diamond industry.