5 million Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/5-million/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 5 million Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/5-million/ 32 32 Peace diamond counter pain caused by blood diamonds in Sierra Leone https://jjcornish.com/2017/12/peace-diamond-counter-pain-caused-blood-diamonds-sierra-leone/ Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/12/peace-diamond-counter-pain-caused-blood-diamonds-sierra-leone/ Proceeds from the sale of an egg-sized diamond that fetched $6,5 million   in New York will go towards improving the lives of people in Sierra Leone . The 709 carat stone dubbed the peace diamond was found by  Christian pastor in the West African country. So-called blood diamonds funded the civil war in Sierra […]

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]]> Proceeds from the sale of an egg-sized diamond that fetched $6,5 million   in New York will go towards improving the lives of people in Sierra Leone .

The 709 carat stone dubbed the peace diamond was found by  Christian pastor in the West African country.

So-called blood diamonds funded the civil war in Sierra Leone in the nineties.

Money raised from the sale of what is one of the world’s largest diamonds will go towards healing some of the lingering misery.

The public auction of the gem is a blow to smugglers and will fly in the face of corruption that stops the people befitting from the country’s wealth.

More than half the proceeds will go towards funding clean water, electricity, schools, health centres and roads.

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