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Ivory Coast
Diamond exports to surge by end of this year

The lifting on the United Nations embargo on Ivory Coast’s diamonds on April 29 will enable Abidjan to at last [...]

Published on 06/05/2014 at 23:02 GMT

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Alassane Ouattara
De Beers
Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council
Hamed Bakayoko
Jean Claude Brou
Paul Koffi Koffi
Societe Nationale Ivoirienne de Developpement Minier
United Nations

Ivory Coast
Mining sector aims to avoid falling back into money laundering and terrorism financing trap

A study is to be carried out to find out if the rapid development of the Ivorian mining sector in recent years has resulted in a revival of the money laundering and terrorist group financing which marked the Ivorian diamond mining industry in the past.

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Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Can Houphouet's jeweller put the shine back on Ivorian diamonds?

Transactysglasol's brand new permit to mine diamonds in the north of Ivory Coast on a semi-industrial and industrial scale (AMI 405), the first awarded since the 1970s, marks the first step towards the arduous revival of the sector.

Subscribers only Mining 26.12.2017

Ivory Coast
Diamonds: Belgium trains civil servants

A system to monitor production and trading in diamonds in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.12.2014

Ivory Coast
Diamond cooperatives thrive in Ivory Coast

Since the recent and effective lifting of the embargo on [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.12.2014

Ivory Coast
Washington corners the diamond trade

Thanks to a highly persuasive form of economic diplomacy, the Americans have tightened their grip on Ivory Coast’s diamond market [...]

Subscribers only Mining 29.07.2014

Ivory Coast
Tigui Mining has its eyes firmly on diamonds

The American concern Tigui Mining Group (TMG) is in exclusive talks with Ivory Coast’s government on acquiring the first diamond [...]

Subscribers only Mining 20.05.2014

Ivory Coast
Diamond smuggling still rife

Three years after the end of an armed rebellion in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.02.2014

Ivory Coast
Embargo soon lifted on diamonds?

The annual meeting of the Kimberley Process proved decisive for [...]

Subscribers only Mining 03.12.2013

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Abidjan picks a harsh mining code

Catching many by surprise, Ivory Coast’s cabinet moved on Dec. 2 to adopt a new mining code. True, Abidjan planned to stitch the code together before the end of the year in order to table it before Parliament in 2014.

Subscribers only Mining 03.12.2013

Ivory Coast
State seeks to turn screw on diamonds

President Ouattara has become annoyed by moves by former rebels in the north to retain control of the diamond trade. [...]

Subscribers only Mining 24.09.2013

Ivory Coast
A stronger spotlight on diamond trafficking

The Kimberley Process is stepping up ways to increase the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 01.01.2013

Ivory Coast
Dirty diamond-mining

Ivory Coast’s north and south were supposed to come together when Alassane Ouattara was elected president but diamonds continue to be mined illegally in the north of the country.

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Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Diamonds under the microscope

The Kimberley Process, which will come under the rotating chairmanship of the United States in 2012, intends to step up satellite surveillance of diamond mines in Ivory Coast. Experts from the Kimberley Process are to shortly approach Ivory Coast’s government [.

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Ivory Coast
Soro told to crack down on illicit mining

The continuation of illicit diamond mining in the northern part of Ivory Coast worries the international community, and particularly the [...]

Free access Mining 31.05.2011

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De Beers
Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council
Hamed Bakayoko
Jean Claude Brou
Paul Koffi Koffi
Societe Nationale Ivoirienne de Developpement Minier
United Nations

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Ivory Coast
Diamond exports to surge by end of this year

Ivory Coast
Mining sector aims to avoid falling back into money laundering and terrorism financing trap

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Can Houphouet's jeweller put the shine back on Ivorian diamonds?

Ivory Coast
Diamonds: Belgium trains civil servants

Ivory Coast
Diamond cooperatives thrive in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast
Washington corners the diamond trade

Ivory Coast
Tigui Mining has its eyes firmly on diamonds

Ivory Coast
Diamond smuggling still rife

Ivory Coast
Embargo soon lifted on diamonds?

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Abidjan picks a harsh mining code

Ivory Coast
State seeks to turn screw on diamonds

Ivory Coast
A stronger spotlight on diamond trafficking

Ivory Coast
Dirty diamond-mining

Spotlight | Ivory Coast
Diamonds under the microscope

Ivory Coast
Soro told to crack down on illicit mining