“The right of peoples and nations to permanent sovereignty over their natural wealth and resources must be exercised in the interest of their national development and of the well-being of the people of the State concerned” –UN resolution 1803(XVII), passed 14 December, 1962.

Sierra Leone has one of the worst standards of living in the entire world. It has occupied the bottom of the United Nations Human Development Index for over a decade, coming in last, or close to last every year since 1990. The tragic story of the failed African state is now, regrettably, so common that people in so-called developed nations have built up a tolerance to the shock that such abject poverty should have on their sensibilities. However, what is surprising about Sierra Leone in particular, is not that it is poor, but that its poverty is the result of its possession of some of the most productive diamond fields in the entire world. These natural resources which are, according to the UN, the......

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Title: Sierra Leone: Greed, Diamonds, And The Global Marketplace
Approximate Word Count: 2180
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