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Izhakoff Urges Action on Crime in the Marange Fields

by Staff reporter and agencies

Wed, Feb 24, 2010

In a keynote speech delivered at the 2010 CIBJO Congress in Munich, Germany, Eli Izhakoff, the chairman of the World Diamond Council (WDC), urged decisive action to end the intolerable situation in the Marange diamond fields of Zimbabwe. Izhakoff said that the Kimberley Process (KP) remains the best vehicle to combat those carrying out criminal acts in the region. The following is the full text of his address:

Zimbabwe House Panel Summons Entire Board of Diamond Mining Firm

by VOA

Mon, Feb 22, 2010

Robert Mhlanga, a former Air Force vice Marshal, told the House Mining Committee that he was prepared to answer all questions about the Marange operations of his Mbada Holdings firm, but the committee insisted on quizzing all directors reports The Voice Of America.

Zambia Owes Zimbabwe U.S.$3 Million for Grain Delivered Ten Years Ago

by Staff reporter and agencies

Thu, Feb 25, 2010

Zimbabwe is owed more than US$3 million by Zambia for maize delivered about 10 years ago, according to the Herald newspaper of Zimbabwe.

ZCTU calls for probe into diamond field

by Zimonline

Wed, Feb 24, 2010

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s labour movement has called for an investigation into mining of diamonds at the controversial Chiadzwa field, amid allegations that top officials from President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party and the military are looting the gemstones for sale on the international black-market for precious stones.

Zimbabwe's white farmers struggle to build city lives

by AFP

Tue, Feb 23, 2010

Ten years into Zimbabwe's land reforms, lifelong farmer John Browning has found a job at a food company's factory in Harare, supervising the night shift.