Sierra Leone’s war helped prompt the U.N.-organized Kimberly Process launched in 2003 to ensure “blood” or “conflict” diamonds are not sold on the black market to buy weapons.

As Sierra Leone sheds its image of war and "blood diamonds" the BBC's Mark Doyle visits the east of the country to see how investment is helping transform lives.

Diamonds led to a decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone with rebels forcing civilians to mine gems and buying weapons with the profits, giving birth to the term "blood diamonds." The war ended in ...

Borat isn’t the only movie hated by underdeveloped, third-world countries. Now it’s Sierra Leone complaining, about the way their country is portrayed in Blood Diamond. The movie plays out ...

Michel Desaedeleer, who has U.S. and Belgian citizenship, is suspected of forcing enslaved civilians to mine for diamonds in Sierra Leone's eastern district of Kono between 1999-2001, according to ...

Tens of thousands of people died during the West African nation's civil war from 1991 to 2002, during which fighters forced civilians to mine so-called "blood diamonds." ...

Spanish authorities have arrested a businessman with dual American-Belgian citizenship who has been accused of enslavement and pillaging “blood diamonds” during Sierra Leone’s civil war, a ...