From community and labour protests to civil wars, businesses are entangled in African conflict and violence. Indeed, all fragile and conflict-affected countries experience violence with a close nexus to the private sector. Until we recognise that private sector development in conflict environments must be a peace process requiring political settlements on matters of the economy we won’t make progress. Peace-positive private sector development is hard to implement and clashes with the goal of maximising private returns. Specialised peacebuilding intermediaries and investment vehicles are needed.
Votes may be in favour of trading lab-grown diamonds within BDB After consistent requests from suppliers of lab-grown diamonds, the votes might just sway in favour of trading lab-growns within the premises of BDB, but with stringent rules in place By: Diamond World News Service
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The decision of whether or not to allow trading of lab-grown diamonds has been one that has been going on for five years since the ban on synthetics in 2015. Since then, a lot has changed, for one, the term synthetics has mostly been replaced by lab-grown. From De Beers, one of the largest producers of diamonds, foraying into lab-grown diamonds to FTC guidelines on lab-grown diamonds being more inclusive and many grading laboratories offering reports for lab-growns, and more importantly consumers getting more inq
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