ZWNEWS.com "Harare - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has awarded civil servants with big pay rises ahead of a general election on March 29, state media reported Wednesday. 'Just yesterday (Monday), I was signing a new salary schedule of big salaries for teachers and civil servants,' Mugabe said at a campaign rally in the southern district of Inyathi, The Herald newspaper reported. 'I hope they will be happy because we have worked out very good salaries.' He did not elaborate on the increases, saying respective ministers would make their announcements. Zimbabwe's public sector has been plagued by strikes in recent months with workers pushing for pay increases that can keep up with a galloping inflation rate which now stands at over 100,000 percent."
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"