In the Central African Republic, Russian mercenaries have been providing security since in 2018 and in return have gained access to some of the country’s gold and diamond mines.

The Wagner group has taken control of the Central African diamond sector. We take a deep dive into a profoundly worrying and mysterious business – Along with gold, coffee and timber, diamonds are a ...

Following Prigozhin’s death, business school grad Dmitry Sytii is working to preserve the group’s multibillion-dollar African operations.

Gold and diamond sales are being used to finance conflict in Central African Republic and United Nations peacekeepers should monitor mining sites to clamp down on illicit trade, a U.N. panel of ...

How one African man's gold scheme cost his American victims millions of dollars Cassell Kuoh, a miner, was by all accounts was a Liberian success story.

Africa’s incredible diamond village where broke people become millionaires overnight A travel creator visited a village in Sierra Leone to find out how locals' lives can completely turn around ...

African Diamonds Plc <AFD.L> has applied for a diamond mining lease for a one-million -carat-a-year mine in Botswana and is due to start production by late 2009, Managing Director James ...