.....18 years of conflict on the horn of Africa as year in, year out the Somalia insurgents continued to tear down the country. Now Somalia is facing an even bigger crisis since the resignation of president Abdullah Yusuf. Elections scheduled for the end of this month appear to have hit a snag.
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"