This week it was all fanfare in Botswana.
The Government and De Beers finally signed the diamond sales agreement deal.
The agreement had taken longer than expected.
In fact had everything gone according to schedule, the negotiations would have been completed long before elections that led to the removal of the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party from state power.
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