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Six million people have died in the conflicts that have been raging across the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the last 13 years – the highest war toll since World War II. Millions of children have been orphaned. Although they live in a country rich in diamonds and gold, most of the people live in hunger. It is estimated that over 75% of the country’s population lives on less than a dollar per day. In the harsh battle for survival, usually it is the children who suffer the most.

Army routine, weapons being cleaned, dinner and evening mass. The blue sky over desert, thousands of stars and like a fist big moon. The peace is interupted only by scatered flights of war planes. The war hasn't said its last word here.

The biggest diamond found in Sierra Leone is "The Star of Sierra Leone" and has 969 carats. Seeing the destinies of the diamond diggers, it is very probable that the one who found it died of malaria in his little house made of mud,and that he died poor.