Only Mugabe and his friends benefit from Zimbabwe’s diamond wealth.

Introduction

For a bankrupt country in the middle of hyperinflation, the discovery of a major diamond deposit in Zimbabwe in June 2006 should have been good news. Instead it has provided sustenance to a volatile and violent political elite that suppresses the majority. The power sharing/coalition government in Zimbabwe came into...

Could your new diamond engagement ring be supporting Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe?

Diamonds are impossible to fake to a moderately trained eye. But it is much harder to detect where a diamond is from. And because diamonds are often found in places run by dictators and despots, there is a business in faking a "blood" diamond's provenance to pretend it was mined elsewhere.

There is new hope in Zimbabwe, or at least that is what everyone wants to believe.

What can the world do to help Zimbabwe?

For the final, fatal collapse of the odious Mugabe regime, theMovement for Democractic Changemust withdraw from the election it cannot win.

Will the good words of Tony Blair and Condoleezza Rice be backed up by action?