In South Africa, preparations are in high gear four months ahead of football's World Cup being held for the first time in Africa. Billions of dollars worth of improvements to the country's infrastructure are complete and other works are under construction. VOA's Scott Bobb has this progress report from the southeastern city of Durban.
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"