Craters filled with muddy water pocket the landscape of the Kono district in Sierra Leone – the result of a blood diamond ...

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Blood Diamond director, Edward Zwick, reveals a hilarious behind-the-scenes story of catching Leo casually flipping through a Victoria’s Secret catalog ...

They're the epitome of romance, glamour and status — but they also have a dark side. DW's Karin Helmstaedt explores the many ...

Diamonds from Sierra Leone have long been viewed negatively around the world. Why? Africans struggled for the control of mining rough diamonds and selling the gems during and after the civil war ...

Blood Diamond takes place in 1998, with Bill Clinton’s sordid affair playing out on televisions across the globe. In Sierra Leone, what’s far more pressing for fisherman Solomon Vandy (Hounsou ...

Kanye West found another way to sneak humanitarian meaning into his brash artistry with "Diamonds From Sierra Leone." ...

MAKENI, Sierra Leone — Residents of Koidu, in eastern Sierra Leone, are pursuing a class-action lawsuit against the operators of a diamond mine they say has dumped toxic mine waste, damaged ...

You may have come across an article a little over a year ago that for once contained some seemingly good news for some of the citizens of Sierra Leone.

It highlights how diamond mining is Sierra Leone's most lucrative export industry, worth up to $250 million annually.

Global diamond giant De Beers is rolling out an app to help small-scale, artisanal diamond miners in Sierra Leone certify that gems they pry from the soil are legal, the Anglo American unit said ...