It’s been 15 years since the global effort to ban conflict diamonds began. But the industry is still tainted by conflict and misery Story by Aryn Baker/Tshikapa Photographs by Lynsey Addario for TIME ...

''T.I.A.," say only three characters in only two scenes in Blood Diamond, but the phrase echoes throughout the entire film. It stands for "This Is Africa," and it conveys a strange brand of fatalism — ...

Blood Diamond is a Hollywood thriller, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, about the illegal gem trade. It doesn’t open for another couple of months, but the diamond industry has already launched a ...

Earnest, engaged, compassionate and way too long at 150 minutes, Blood Diamond is probably not the kind of movie most of us feel like watching during the holidays but probably should, for our own good ...

De Beers, the Johannesburg-based company with a hammerlock on the world's diamond trade, has been waging a PR campaign for months in anticipation of Blood Diamond, a thriller about the wars waged over ...