Algerian news agency: "ALGIERS- Algeria recommended Monday a 'rational approach' to the African Union (AU) government project, at an AU Executive Council meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, indicated a Foreign Affairs ministry's release. Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci, heading the Algerian delegation at the Council meeting, 'highlighted, during the examination of the Union government issue, the significance of the matter,' the ministry pointed out. Medelci stressed, before his counterparts from the 53 AU member countries forming the Executive Council, that the project 'concerns the future of Africa.'"
afrol News - Huge diamonds found in DRC : "A Canadian mineral exploration firm, Mexivada Mining Corp, has reported the discovery of two large diamonds in its 100% controlled Malambani Permis de Recherche concession, located near Mayoko in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mexivada described the first stone as a white, modified octahedron 7.5 milimetres in diameter while the second stone was a shiny 6 milimetre greenish-white coloured dodecahedral diamond. Each of them weighs 0.1 gram"