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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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September 11, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
Huge Diamond Mined in South Africa
Diamonds are associated with glamour and South Africa. The Cullinan Mine, east of Pretoria, is famous for diamonds of the huge variety, including the ‘Cullinan Diamond,’ at 3,106 carets, the largest …
February 13, 2013
Energy and Environment
New From CFR: John Campbell on Diamonds in Zimbabwe and Immunization in Nigeria
This week on his blog, CFR senior fellow John Campbell has highlighted two major African concerns: resource wealth and immunization. He first explores the question of what is happening to the income …
April 8, 2011
Democracy
Democracy Promotion and the Obama Doctrine
President Obama is right to balance U.S. national interests with democracy promotion in dealing with the Middle East, intervening in select cases and standing behind democracy advocates in others, sa…
June 10, 2008
Capital Flows
A Diamond in the Rough: The Role of the Private Sector in Sustainable Development in Africa
Watch Gareth Penny, managing director of De Beers, discuss economic development in Africa and how the private sector can faciliate sustained growth.
October 3, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
De Beers Diamond Moves Sales Army from London to Botswana
For the past century or so, big mining corporations have pursued their operations in Africa, but their senior management, marketing, and sales have been in Europe or North America. That is changing. …
