Word: debswana
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...thinking leaders have persuaded a global mining giant to invest in its happy road to development. De Beers, the world's largest diamond-mining company and a name once synonymous with the imperial multinational, has operated its mines with the government for decades as a 50-50 partnership called Debswana. Now De Beers has deepened that cooperation by moving its worldwide diamond-sorting and -valuing operation from London to Botswana's capital, Gaborone--a move it predicts will create 3,000 jobs and establish a model for other miners in Africa...
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