There's growing speculation about the loyalty of Zimbabwe's army and police to the president, Robert Mugabe, after army riots broke out in Harare. Dire economic circumstances have taken their toll on many soldiers.
Al-Jazeera's Jonah Hull met with some of them in the South African town of Pietermaritzburg.
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"