Hopes of a natural diamond peak season rebound on the back of a high-profile global campaign were fading this week – and Botswana, a key diamond producer and self-proclaimed leader of the campaign is failing to honor its multi-million Pula commitment.
The “Botswana led” Luanda Accord, through which the world’s leading diamond-producing nations agreed to build a war chest of potentially millions of dollars to protect natural diamonds from the threat of lab grown alternatives this week seemed to be fizzling out.
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