Noting with concern continuing human rights violations against civilians in Côte d’Ivoire, including numerous acts of sexual violence, the Security Council this morning renewed for another year its arms embargo and diamond trade ban in Côte d’Ivoire, as well as targeted sanctions restricting the travel of individuals that threatened the peace process in the West [...]
Africa
Zimbabwe Cited as ‘Distraction’ for Kimberley Process Participants in Continued Uninhibited Rough Diamond Trade From Ivory Coast
A new United Nations report to the Security Council by the Group of Experts monitoring sanctions on the Ivory Coast has found that the
extraction of diamonds continues unabated in northern Côte d’Ivoire. The report describes this continued mining as ‘the foremost challenge facing the embargo on rough diamond exports from Côte d’Ivoire’, noting that the [...]
