This year's Human Rights Watch International Film Festival includes a documentary focusing on the group's lead attorney and a former political prisoner from Chad. They worked together, and without government support, to bring Chad's former dictator to trial. It's a suspenseful tale spanning several years and three continents. Carolyn Weaver reports.
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"