Namibia is one of Africa's top five diamond exporters, right behind Angola, Botswana, and South Africa. In 2022, the country exported more than $940 million worth of diamonds. The world's demand ...

Here in southern Namibia, there is no shortage of sand ... to the inland dunes that slowly shift to swallow old diamond mining towns, the region is wrapped in an overarching color scheme of ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia – Dina Muhimba handles hundreds of diamonds every day in what she describes as a "no-mistake job." Muhimba, who sorts gemstones at the Namibia Diamond Trading Company ...

Between 1904 and 1908, Germany’s military and leadership oversaw the killing of at least 80,000 Africans in what is now the independent country of Namibia. On May 28, Germany apologized.

Spades and shovels had been left where they stood. In its 1930s' heyday Kolmanskop produced more diamonds than any other town in Namibia. Its residents, mostly German settlers, grew rich enough to ...

Windhoek — The diamond industry is the most important strategic sector of the economy because it contributes 35 percent to the country's export earnings, 7% to its Gross Domestic Product (GDP ...

According to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme's 2009 annual summary of global diamond production, locally released by Old Mutual group economist Robin Sherbourne yesterday, Namibia ...

unbranded - Lifestyle Echoes of Kolmanskop: Namibia's Diamond Ghost Town Posted: May 14, 2025 | Last updated: May 14, 2025 Step inside the haunting remains of Kolmanskop, a once-thriving diamond ...

WALVIS BAY, Namibia (AP) — Namibia and the De Beers company have inaugurated a $157 million vessel designed to find diamonds more easily off the country's Atlantic Ocean coastline. The vessel is ...

Diamond polishers in Namibia, companies that employ about 1,300 people, will have to wait for the outcome of talks between the southwest African country and De Beers before they know the fate of ...