{"id":46805,"date":"2026-10-09T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/10\/09\/sierra-leone-from-blood-diamonds-to-stones-of-hope\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:02:12","slug":"sierra-leone-from-blood-diamonds-to-stones-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/10\/09\/sierra-leone-from-blood-diamonds-to-stones-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: From &lsquo;blood diamonds&rsquo; to stones of hope?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u00ab\u00a0Blood diamonds\u00a0\u00bb became infamous for funding the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone. Beginning 25 years ago, the Kimberley Process aimed to put an end to this illegal trade. Accused of complicity in the conflict, the diamond industry has since sought to clean up its image, emphasising an ethical shift. But a quarter of a century on, have the former \u00ab\u00a0blood diamonds\u00a0\u00bb truly become synonymous with development? FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Sarah Sakho and Simon Martin report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ab\u00a0Blood diamonds\u00a0\u00bb became infamous for funding the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone. Beginning 25 years ago, the Kimberley Process aimed to put an end to this illegal trade. Accused of complicity in the conflict, the diamond industry has since sought to clean up its image, emphasising an ethical shift. But a quarter of a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-46805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}