Full circle

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, South African, Tony Teixeira, Angola, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Britain, Al Rosa

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