The Role Of Diamond Mining In Sierra Leone Economy

Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, is awaiting sentencing in the Hague; he was recently convicted of committing war crimes in Sierra Leone in the 1990s. The judges said Taylor supplied arms and other help to rebels in exchange for so-called "blood diamonds" mined in Sierra Leone.

Today diamond mining is apparently "clean" and a major industry in the impoverished west African country. The BBC's Mark Doyle reports on the contribution diamond mining is making to Sierra Leone's development.