UN set to lift Ivory Coast diamond ban - Executive Salad

UN set to lift Ivory Coast diamond ban

The UN Security Council is set to vote on lifting an embargo on diamond exports from the Ivory Coast. The ban was put in place a decade ago when gems were traded for arms – funding a violent rebellion that divided the country. Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque reports from a diamond mine in Segala – a former rebel held area.

Source:

http://headlinesafrica.com/index.php/watch-news?video_id=ewTvIhkMLEc

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s