Fifteen years after the end of one of Africa's longest wars, Angola remains one of the world's most heavilymined countries. Swaths of Angola are still littered with land mines, some produced decades ago in countries that no longer exist.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled in 2018 that lab-grown diamonds are included in the same definitional universe asmined diamonds but warned against the use of terms like "natural" in marketing that confused the two categories.
Some diamond industry analysts believe artificial diamonds are about to become their own market, separate from that for the traditional – and more exclusive – one formined diamonds.
In a year and a half of conflict, land mines — along with unexploded bombs, artillery shells and other deadly byproducts of war — have contaminated a swath of Ukraine roughly the size of Florida or Uruguay. It has become the world's mostmined country.
