De Beers claims to have stopped scooping up loose gemstones on the open market that might have come from African war zones.
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Deep in the jungle of the Congo River basin, far from the eyes of most of the world, a largely forgotten African war is being fought.
Often dubbed the Great African war, analysts say the conflict in the DRC -- considered Africa's oldest and deadliest war -- has cost the lives of nearly five million people.
Other questions covered the United Nations International Year for People of African Descent and war memorial gardens.
Now inflation is low nearly everywhere bar Zimbabwe (where it is 150, 000%) and nearly every African country not at war is growing quite fast.
During the Cold War individual African countries were important global diplomatic players, courted by both east and west eager to expand their spheres of influence.
During the cold war, African governments, acting as proxy for one side or the other, often backed rebel movements but they rarely crossed borders and never because of an internal issue.
How would they know about our women prisoners of war, or female military astronauts and code breakers, and the courage of young African-American women soldiers during World War II?
After the second world war, other African independence movements saw Liberia as a model.
On the eve of World War II, African Americans in the North had achieved real political leverage.
The reasons for the current flight into Botswana go back to Namibia's war against South African occupation.
African countries involved in the war in Congo said they would return to the positions they held when a peace agreement was signed in Lusaka last year, and would avoid further fighting.
Mr Ngcuka is used to coming under attack, but he unleashed a veritable war within the African National Congress when he pronounced that there was enough prima facie evidence to pursue a case against Deputy President Jacob Zuma in connection with allegations of bribery linked to the government's arms procurement deal, but not enough evidence to secure a conviction in court.
It was one of the first that was integrated after World War II, where African-Americans could own their own homes.
This is the issue that is embroiling half a dozen African armies, and at least as many African rebel groups, in continuing war.
In 1997, Sierra Leone's military leader, Johnny Paul Koroma, was sworn in as head of state and pledged to restore peace to the war-weary West African nation.
My sons were both conscripted by the South African government to fight in the bush war.
Another aid group, World Vision, says the conflict in the African country is the deadliest since World War II.
Her book, which is shortlisted for the Orange Prize, is about friendship and war in the troubled West African state.
On Monday night, PA reported that about 15 students -- members of the School of Oriental and African Studies' branch of Stop the War Coalition -- occupied the reception area of a BBC building in central London and demanded to speak to a senior member of the corporation.
Before the cold war ended, only three small African countries were proper democracies: Botswana, Mauritius and Senegal.
Above all, it involved an intimate knowledge of the enemy which perhaps only an African commander can muster in this sort of war.
But it's been difficult to stitch together a coalition of African countries willing or able to go to war on behalf of Mali's weak civilian government.
Taylor is the first African head of state to go on trial for war crimes before an international tribunal.
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Ethiopia, where Mr O'Neill will wind up his visit by attending the annual meeting of the African Development Bank, is scarred by a recent war with Eritrea.
In the early 1960s Panorama documented at length the complex passage of African decolonisation and also the alarming escalation of the Cold War.
The war between the Arabic-speaking north and the African south has, after all, been going on since 1956, apart from a ten-year break after 1972.
Many of the South African soldiers from Executive Outcomes, the mercenary outfit that swung the war in the government's favour, are still in the country.
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Mary Seacole, the arrival in the UK of post-war migrants from the Caribbean and the immigration of East African Asians are all explicitly mentioned in our draft proposals.
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