Sierra Leone: the diamond that saved a thousand lives

Crossing Continents by BBC

May 26, 202631:26News & Politics

In 2017, five men digging in an open pit found the third largest diamond ever unearthed in west Africa. It was dubbed the Peace Diamond, in memory of the brutal civil war that had ravaged large parts of the region in the...

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