{"id":8708,"date":"2013-06-26T13:57:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/botswana-auctions-diamonds-at-home\/"},"modified":"2013-06-26T13:57:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:57:33","slug":"botswana-auctions-diamonds-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/botswana-auctions-diamonds-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Auctions Diamonds at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Botswana, the world&#8217;s largest diamond producer, has started to auction its own diamonds for the first time instead of selling them in Europe.}}<\/p>\n<p>The auction is by the government-owned Okavango Diamond Company.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the year, diamond giant De Beers, which owns the country&#8217;s main mining firm with the government, will also move its sales to Gaborone.<\/p>\n<p>Botswana has long campaigned for its diamonds to be processed, sorted, marketed and sold from the country.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, De Beers moved its rough stone sorting operation, which had been based in London for nearly 80 years, to Botswana.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3056 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pol-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Botswana, the world&#8217;s largest diamond producer, has started to auction its own diamonds for the first time instead of selling them in Europe.}} The auction is by the government-owned Okavango Diamond Company. Later in the year, diamond giant De Beers, which owns the country&#8217;s main mining firm with the government, will also move its sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}