Angolan and Congolese Governments Discuss Conflict-Free Diamonds

The history of the development of diamonds in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo is deeply entrenched in violence. Officials from the two countries have been meeting in the northeastern Angolan town of Dundo to discuss the conflict-free development of diamonds found in their countries. However, Luanda and Kinshasa are less concerned about the humanitarian welfare of those mining their countries' diamonds than about making sure the resource is not used to restart either a proxy conflict against each other or a civil war within either country.