Editing Blood diamond (section)

===Ivory Coast===
[[Ivory Coast]]  began to develop a fledgling diamond mining industry in the early 1990s. A [[Coup d'état|coup]] overthrew the government in 1999, starting a civil war. The country became a route for exporting diamonds from Liberia and war-torn Sierra Leone.<ref name=DFORGConflictbackground>{{cite web |url=http://www.diamondfacts.org/conflict/background.html |title=Background - Conflict Diamonds- DiamondFacts.org |access-date=2006-12-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061213064137/http://www.diamondfacts.org/conflict/background.html |archive-date=2006-12-13 }}</ref><ref name=heartmatter>{{cite web |url=http://www.sierra-leone.org/heartmatter.html |title=The Heart of the Matter: Sierra Leone, Diamonds and Human Security - Partnership Africa Canada - Sierra Leone Web |access-date=2006-12-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070120121759/http://www.sierra-leone.org/heartmatter.html |archive-date=2007-01-20 }}</ref> Foreign investment begin to withdraw from Ivory Coast. To curtail the illegal trade, the nation stopped all diamond mining and the [[UN Security Council]] banned all exports of diamonds from Ivory Coast in December 2005. This ban lasted about ten years but it was later lifted in April 2014 when members of the UN council voted to suspend the sanction. The Kimberley process officials also notified in November 2013 that Ivory Coast was right producing artisanal diamonds.<ref name=DFORGConflictbackground/>

Despite UN sanctions, the illicit diamond trade still exists in Ivory Coast. Rough diamonds are exported out of the country to neighboring states and international trading centers through the northern [[Forces Nouvelles de Côte d'Ivoire|Forces Nouvelles]] controlled section of the country, a group which is reported to be using these funds to re-arm.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/861/en/campaigners_call_for_urgent_action_on_zimbabwe_blo |title=Campaigners call for urgent action on Zimbabwe blood diamonds and wider reform of the Kimberley Process to prevent abuse - media library - global witness |access-date=2011-05-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100902191501/http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/861/en/campaigners_call_for_urgent_action_on_zimbabwe_blo |archive-date=2010-09-02 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N09/550/99/PDF/N0955099.pdf?OpenElement|title=Home Page|author=ODS Team|work=un.org}}</ref>