The Angolan Civil War
The Angolan Civil War lasted from 1975 to 2002. On one side, the Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) was backed by the Soviet Union and its client state, Cuba. ... Due to the arms embargo, the South Africans developed …
Angola seeks dual listing for diamond miner Endiama, to …
Angola will seek a foreign listing for state-owned diamond miner Endiama after an initial public offering at home, its mines minister said, even as the company's operations are affected by links ...
Angola's Mineral Policies | SpringerLink
Home to one of the world's largest diamond reserves, Angola is a strategically important location which attracts much foreign investment. Despite heavy investments in the country's mining infrastructure which had been largely destroyed during the Angolan Civil War (1975–2002), many industry-related problems remain unresolved.
ANGOLA : Will Angolan diamonds of Russia's Alrosa soon …
The seven million carats of diamonds produced each year by Russia's Alrosa group at its mine in Catoca bring in welcome revenue to Angola but are starting to worry the Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition (KP CSC). The coalition, which comprises different bodies monitoring implementation of the Kimberley Process, an international body that aims to set up a system …
Diamonds, War, Poverty and Underdevelopment: A
This chapter then looks at some of the environmental challenges raised by diamond mining and concludes by strongly suggesting that the Botswana model of good governance and extractive governance should be looked to. ... With the end of the civil wars in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, and with the trial and ...
A peace dividend 20 years in the making: The …
The opening of the Angolan mining sector. The peace agreement signed in April 2002 that brought an end to Angola's 27-year civil war enabled the country to get its diamond industry back on track. But, already 10 years earlier, in 1992, …
Diamond Wars? Conflict Diamonds and Geographies of Resource …
None of the rebel movements in Angola, the DRC, and Sierra Leone started as an insurrection in the diamond mining areas by diamond mining groups (Citation Ross 2004a), although some rebel leaders had a mining background (e.g., Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL) with Laurent Kabila, and RUF with Sam Bockarie).
Big pink diamond discovered in Angola, largest in 300 years
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A big pink diamond of 170 carats has been discovered in Angola and is claimed to be the largest such gemstone found in 300 years. Called the "Lulo Rose," the diamond was found at the Lulo alluvial diamond mine, the mine's owner, the Lucapa Diamond Company, announced Wednesday on its website.
Mining in Angola
The extent of diamond mining Angola has vast mineral resources: gold, platinum, nickel, chrome, iron, copper, manganese, ... The legacies of war made diamond mining today highly surveyed and ...
Sierra Leone's Resource Curse: How the Abuse of Diamonds …
Diamonds that originated from Sierra Leone during its ten-year conflict, and from Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo during their own conflicts, 1975–2002 and 1994–2003 (countries where rebel groups raised capital through the sale of illegally mined diamonds), are commonly referred to as 'conflict diamonds' or 'blood diamonds.'
Angola seizes stake in diamond miner
Angola has seized a stake in the nation's biggest diamond miner, giving it majority control of one of the world's largest gem firms in a move that marks the waning influence of Chinese ...
Blood Diamonds
According to Endiama, Angola's state diamond mining company, the attack on Yetwene is the fourth mining project destroyed by UNITA forces during recent months. Scattered hit-and-run attacks have forced foreign mining companies to consolidate their personnel in core mining areas. At the end of October, Petra Diamonds of South Africa suspended ...
Angola: From rough diamond to mining giant?
Historically, Endiama has partnered with Russian mining giant Alrosa, which is the largest foreign investor in Angola's diamond sector. Although Alrosa was subjected to US sanctions in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the company holds minority stakes in Angolan diamond mines, enabling it to escape the measures.
Profit vs. Peace: The Clandestine Diamond Economy of …
diamonds by UNITA have prolonged the war and enriched rebel leaders. The Angolan Government has responded by using revenues from official diamond and oil sales to fight UNITA, impoverishing the country even further. Angola has experienced civil war intermittently since 1961. Even before Portugal abruptly granted independence to, and
Urban Modernity versus the Blood Diamond Legacy: …
Abstract. For most of the latter half of the 20th century, war carved the contours of settlement and mining activity in Angola. The aim of this article is twofold: first, to contrast …
Precarity in Angolan diamond mining towns, 1920 2014: …
Angola capitalizes its diamond production. Poverty and precarity of livelihood in the Lundas at present needs to be understood in light of the return of large-scale diamond mine pro-duction, …
Conflict diamonds and the Angolan Civil War (1992–2002)
Yet in the Angolan Civil War (1992–2002), the use of conflict diamonds by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) resulted in a decisive insurgent …
Angola's war economy : the role of oil and diamonds
Angola's war economy : the role of oil and diamonds. Responsibility edited by Jakkie Cilliers and Christian Dietrich. Imprint Pretoria : Institute for Security Studies, 2000. Physical description x, 370 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. Available online At the library. SAL1&2 (on-campus storage) ...
Urban Modernity versus the Blood Diamond Legacy: Angola's Urban Mining
Abstract. For most of the latter half of the 20th century, war carved the contours of settlement and mining activity in Angola. The aim of this article is twofold: first, to contrast migrant and urban livelihoods during the war, distinguishing between artisanal guerrilla diamond-digging settlements and the refuge 'government cities', and, secondly, to compare recent …
History of Blood Diamonds and the Kimberley …
At Brilliant Earth, we advocate for an end to all forms of violence associated with diamond mining: a different path is possible, and we're paving it. Central African Republic. In the Central African Republic, a devastating civil …
Angola's Political Economy of War: The Role of Oil and …
Angola's oil and diamonds that partly fuelled four decades of war. Angola's wealth appears to be a curse for its people. Wealth is not the curse in itself, however. ... A Political History of the Civil War in Angola, 1974-1990 (Transaction Pub-lishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 1992). 4. C. Messiant, 'Angola, les voies de l'ethnisation et de la ...
(PDF) Power struggle, and Competing of Natural Resource: Diamonds …
Inventory of Forma l Diamond Mining. In Angola's War Economy: The Role of Oil . and Diamond, ed. Cilliers, Jackie and Dietrich, Chr istian. Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies, p. 144.
Mining in Angola | SpringerLink
At independence, Diamang was replaced by Endiama (Empresa Nacional de Diamantes de Angola, E.P.), a public capital company instituted in 1981 by a committee of the National Defense and Security Council to work as a concessionary of the mining rights in the diamond area.The civil war that followed independence deeply affected formal industrial …
Blood Diamonds
According to Endiama, Angola's state diamond mining company, the attack on Yetwene is the fourth mining project destroyed by UNITA forces during recent months. Scattered hit-and-run attacks have forced foreign mining companies …
Angola's new diamond mine opens against backdrop of …
An employee looks at a rough diamond at "Flanders Manufacturing", as the G7 weighs a ban on Russian diamond imports to reduce revenues for Moscow's war in Ukraine, Antwerp, Belgium, October 30, 2023.
Angola's Mineral Axis with America
Aerial photo from the capital of Angola, Luanda. getty. When I visited Luanda in 2018, the country was still trying to figure out how to rebuild its economy after years of kleptocracy from the ...
Angola
Angola - Oil, Diamonds, Agriculture: Angola's resources are considerable in comparison with those of most African countries. There are large reserves of petroleum and natural gas, concentrated in the maritime zones off the Cabinda exclave and the Congo River estuary. Production is largely concentrated off the coast of Cabinda, although there is some …
The mining industry in Angola, no longer a diamond in …
Angola is creating a new diamond development hub in the mining province of Lunda Sul, creating jobs, investment and specialist careers. ADVERTISEMENT Diamond production is one of Angola's main ...
Blood Diamonds: More than a Humanitarian Crisis?
Right: small-scale diamond mine in Angola (Kedem et al, 2021), and Bottom: map illustrating diamond producing countries, affiliation with conflict or "Blood Diamonds" and involvement with smuggling. Here, smuggling refers to the export of diamonds that do not comply with the Kimberly Process (Baker, 2015). ... The Angolan Civil War (1975 ...
Conflict diamonds in West Africa
A history of conflict diamonds in West Africa. Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone, originally a British Colony, mined diamonds legitimately and profitably until its Independence in 1961. It …