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Sierra Leone fortunes change as diamond trade brings back investment

The Guardian | June 10, 2012 | 2:57 pm Africa Diamond 

Returning multinationals create mining boom in once-war ravaged country synonymous with brutality and child soldiers Lying in Sierra Leone's mineral-rich eastern belt, the Koidu Holdings diamond mine and others like it were once at the heart of the...

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