The Kimberly Process has become a whitewash; Roger Bate reports from Africa.

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...

A new policy in Zimbabwe effectively means that all of Zimbabwe's foreign-owned industries are to be nationalized, which may well be the final straw for what's left of Zimbabwe's economy.

Chinese investment is increasing in Zimbabwe;the geo-political context of southern Africa is changing.

China's involvement in Zimbabweis economically astute, but itswillingness to take over the economic means of production in a pariah state is politically worrying.

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has destroyed his country; now he isbegging the Chinese for money.

To stay inpower, Robert Mugabe has a German company printing worthless bank notes to bribe officials in the public sector, army, and other public-security servicesin Zimbabwe.