Straddling the Arab North and African South, Sudan's Abyei region is traditionally seen as a cultural crossroads.
Arabs and Africans have mixed freely there for centuries.
But as the North and South wrestle for control of the oil-rich region, the issue of ethnic identity is dividing its people
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"