Growing interest around the world for laboratory-grown diamonds poses both threats and opportunities for African economies that depend on their own natural gems.
More and more jewellery lovers are shunning natural diamonds because of human rights abuses in the mining industry and concerns that the sale of so-called ‘blood diamonds’ continues to fund insurgencies in countries such as the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo.
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