Jonathan Pienaar, the prolific South African star of films like Blood Diamond and series like Cape Town, has died at the age 63. Pienaar's ex-wife, the dancer Rosana Maya, confirmed his death on Nov.

In the ambitious, sweeping and sometimes moving Blood Diamond, Edward Zwick aims to fuse recent history with mass-scale entertainment. That’s nothing new for Hollywood, and the story of the wages of ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - The Hollywood movie "The Blood Diamond" about gem smuggling in Africa could hinder Sierra Leone's postwar recovery as its struggles to legitimize its vital diamond exports, ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Much has changed in West Africa since the brutal civil wars of the 1990s depicted in a new Hollywood film "Blood Diamond", as regional conflicts have subsided and the flow of illegal ...

Hosted by investigative reporter Dominic Cunningham-Reid, this National Geographic TV special follows the international trade of illegal diamonds along a danger-filled route from Sierra Leone to ...

For centuries, diamonds have held a special place in human culture. Rulers adorned themselves with them, lovers exchanged them as symbols of commitment, and collectors placed them at high prices for ...

Supermodel Naomi Campbell is at the center of a riveting trial involving notorious ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor. Earlier today, she told a war crimes tribunal that she received a few ...

Growing interest around the world for laboratory-grown diamonds poses both threats and opportunities for African economies that depend on their own natural gems. More and more jewellery lovers are ...