Last year, residents of Zimbabwe were suffering with the highest rate of inflation in the world, an a chronic shortage of even the most basic goods.
But 12 months later, goods are back on the shelves of local grocers due in part to the government's decision to replace the Zimbabwe dollar with the South African rand and the US dollar.
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"