Sierra Leone: No Longer a Minefield: Rehabilitating Lands Scarred by Diamond Mining to Offer New Livelihoods in Sierra Leone

Apr 17, 2024 | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
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In the district of Kono, in eastern Sierra Leone, the yellow soils lie barren and exposed, gouged out by the relentless quest for diamonds. In large swathes of this region, the earth is scarred and depleted by loss of topsoil, erosion and contamination. Many local communities have been battered by a history of conflicts over the gems, escalating into civil war in the 1990s.