Diamonds, gold, bauxite, iron ore: You name it, Sierra Leone's got it. Twenty years after the civil war, the West African country is no longer ruled by "conflict diamonds." But does the modernday mineral sector really benefit the people of Sierra Leone? Edith Kimani heads to Koidu town in the diamondrich Kono District to find out.

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