By Jason Mitchell Once defined by war and blood diamonds, Sierra Leone is now looking to turn its rich but underdeveloped ...

It is an industry that was supposed to be cleaned up, after the turn-of-the-millennium­ notoriety surrounding so-called blood or conflict ­diamonds—precious stones mined in African war zones ...

Amid a plummeting stock market, self-driving cars running amok, and Mark Zuckerberg buying a house in Northwest, another sign of end times has arrived in Washington, DC: A diamond, the color of blood.

this West African country endured a bloody civil war that left more than 70,000 people dead and displaced 2.6 million others—funded largely through the trade of so-called blood diamonds.

The Kimberley Process was supposed to put an end to the violent blood-diamond trade. But in Angola's diamond heartland, peasant miners are still being exploited. WSJ's Michael Allen reports.

With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. Political unrest is rampant in Sierra Leone as people fight tooth for tooth. Upon meeting ...