Messika is preparing to reveal a necklace with the 20,46-carat Okavango Blue at Couture Week, July 6 in Paris.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The largest diamond to be unearthed in more than a century has been found in Botswana, a country in Southern Africa. Botswana's ...

Orapa, Botswana – It is a year since Motshwegwa Rakhudu lost his job after 14 years working as an installer at Debswana diamond mining operations in northern Botswana. He says he had been on rolling ...

Botswana’s Debswana Diamond Company expects to raise diamond production by about 20% this year, a central bank official said on Wednesday, a potential boost to an economy seeking to recover from a ...

A remarkable discovery has been made in Botswana’s diamond mining industry with the unearthing of a rare half-pink rough diamond weighing an impressive 37.4 carats. This find not only highlights the ...

During JCK 2024, Mokgweetsi Masisi, President of Botswana, spoke before an audience with JCK editor Victoria Gomelsky regarding the past, present and future of Botswana's diamond industry. Presented ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Botswana held a national election on Wednesday to decide if one of Africa's longest-ruling parties stays in power for another five-year term. The Botswana Democratic Party ...

GABORONE, Botswana — The Botswana government signed a new diamond sales agreement crucial to its economy with the De Beers mining company on Tuesday after seven years of negotiations. The deal gives ...

This past May, I joined Ben Bridge Jeweler on a weeklong journey through Botswana. I was mainly excited to travel to a corner of the world I had never seen before and eager to explore what the country ...

The Botswana government and Anglo-American, the majority owner of De Beers, have reached an “agreement in principle”, the two sides said in a statement issued late Friday. The agreement provides for a ...

For the diamond-cutting industry in Botswana, the news last week could hardly have been much worse. In January, the press reported that diamond cutters MotiGanz and Leo Schachter had laid off 150 ...