Yaounde – Cameroon is tightening border security to halt the illegal flow of diamonds from neighbouring, conflict-torn Central African Republic, the government said Monday. Fifteen months of escalating violence in CAR had raised suspicions that the country’s diamonds were being used to buy weapons, said Cameroon’s mining minister Emmanuel Bonde.
“We have to make sure that CAR’s minerals are not fuelling this crisis, which threatens to destabilize the entire central African sub-region”, said Bonde.
