2026-05-26
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Nine years ago, 2017, in a small, remote and extremely poor West African community,
I've joined a crowd of local villagers who've just broken out in song.
There's unbridled joy.
Why are they so happy?
The villagers have just learnt that in a nearby open-cast pit, five of their kinsmen have just unearthed
one of the biggest diamonds ever found in West Africa, one of the biggest ever found in the world.
It's over 700 carats.
It's the size of a large egg.