Zim Bans All Diamond Exports

"I have suspended all diamond exports from Zimbabwe with immediate effect until the issue of the KPCS has been sorted out," Obert Mpofu, the mines minister told the state-owned Herald newspaper.

Zimbabwe is yet to get a nod from the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), which regulates the global diamond trade, to sell diamonds from Marange. The government accuses the West of a plot to stop Zimbabwe from benefitting from the resource.