
Sierra Leone: The diamond that saved a thousand lives
Published 5/26/2026

Published 5/26/2026
In 2017, five men digging in an open pit found the third largest diamond ever unearthed in West Africa. It was dubbed the Peace Diamond, in memory of the brutal civil war that had ravaged large parts of the region in the 1990s – a war driven in part by factions competing for control of the diamond…