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The troubled Sengamines diamond operation is back where it started six years ago when a group of Gulf Arab businessmen and Zimbabwean generals carved out a chunk of the state's mining concessions around Mbuji-Mayi in an opaque trade-off with the late President Laurent-Désiré Kabila. These were claimed as the richest diamond mines in Africa but the operation has been dogged by market scepticism (AC Vol 45 No 10)....

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Zimbabwean, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Israel, Dan Gertler, Chaim Leibovitz, Russia, Libyan, Omani, Thamer al Shanfari, Qatari, Issa al Kawari, South African, Tony Teixeira, Angola, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Britain, Société Minière de Bakwanga, Al Rosa

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