As South Africa prepares to host the football, or soccer, World Cup beginning in June, organizers have recruited thousands of volunteers to help the hundreds of thousands of fans who will be attending. VOA's Scott Bobb went to one of the volunteer training sessions in Johannesburg and has this report.
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"