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KOIDU Final
Ride along with volunteer Jason Dudek and make the drive from Kono Hotel to the SLAM orpha...
published: 08 Oct 2013
KOIDU Final
KOIDU Final
Ride along with volunteer Jason Dudek and make the drive from Kono Hotel to the SLAM orphanage in Eastern Sierra Leone. This video is a striking audio-visual presentation of the state of Sierra Leone's diamond mining capital which was at the epicentre of the country's decade long civil war.- published: 08 Oct 2013
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Vennaskond - Nüüd mingem siit, veel koidu eel!
Muusika: Tõnu Trubetsky & Allan Vainola Tekst: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Album: Inglid ja ...
published: 12 Jan 2009
author: Anarhya1
Vennaskond - Nüüd mingem siit, veel koidu eel!
Vennaskond - Nüüd mingem siit, veel koidu eel!
Muusika: Tõnu Trubetsky & Allan Vainola Tekst: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Album: Inglid ja Kangelased.- published: 12 Jan 2009
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- author: Anarhya1
1:03
Koidu, Sierra Leone
A drive down the main street in Koidu, Sierra Leone.
Koidu Town is the largest town and ...
published: 07 Nov 2013
Koidu, Sierra Leone
Koidu, Sierra Leone
A drive down the main street in Koidu, Sierra Leone. Koidu Town is the largest town and economic center of the diamond-rich Kono District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone near the Guinea border. We stayed here for 2 nights before heading south to Bo.- published: 07 Nov 2013
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3:35
Vana-Koidu tn 16b ehitise omaniku kasuks hoonestusõiguse seadmine
Elvas, Vana-Koidu tn 16b ehitise omaniku kasuks hoonestusõiguse seadmine riigimaale ja arv...
published: 28 Jan 2014
Vana-Koidu tn 16b ehitise omaniku kasuks hoonestusõiguse seadmine
Vana-Koidu tn 16b ehitise omaniku kasuks hoonestusõiguse seadmine
Elvas, Vana-Koidu tn 16b ehitise omaniku kasuks hoonestusõiguse seadmine riigimaale ja arvamuse andmine maa riigi omandisse jätmise kohta Ettekandja: Kalev Kepp Elva Linnavolikogu istung 27.01.2014- published: 28 Jan 2014
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2:37
Meenutusi ülikooliajast 7 (Maria Koidu)
TTÜ majandusteaduskonna vilistlane Maria Koidu räägib oma praegustest tegemistest, TTÜst s...
published: 27 Oct 2009
author: Tipptegijad
Meenutusi ülikooliajast 7 (Maria Koidu)
Meenutusi ülikooliajast 7 (Maria Koidu)
TTÜ majandusteaduskonna vilistlane Maria Koidu räägib oma praegustest tegemistest, TTÜst saadud hariduse kasulikkusest, meenutab värvikamaid seiku ülikooliaj...- published: 27 Oct 2009
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- author: Tipptegijad
3:44
Annika ja Koidu - "Unemetsades"
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published: 05 Oct 2011
author: ApelsiniKaru
Annika ja Koidu - "Unemetsades"
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11:44
Life After Diamonds
'Life After Diamonds' highlights the destruction and challenges faced in mining communitie...
published: 17 May 2009
author: Sheryle Carlson
Life After Diamonds
'Life After Diamonds' highlights the destruction and challenges faced in mining communities in the post-war diamondiferous regions in Sierra Leone. Cooperatives in the Kono district are engaging in reclamation of wasted mining sites into agricultural productive land to create food security, encourage wider industry adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility and promote improved legislation.
Shot in March and April 2009, 'Life After Diamonds' was created by Canadians Larissa Stendie and Sheryle Carlson, partnering with production team at the Environmental Foundation for Africa.
For more info, please visit http://www.onesky.ca/
Contact Larissa Stendie at larissa.stendie@gmail.com if you would like to use the video
About the Project:
During the Civil War in Sierra Leone, international consumers were understandably horrified to learn that jewelry they had purchased as a symbol of their love may have come at such terrible human and environmental costs, and began to push for tighter restrictions in the trade and paper trail for diamonds. While the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme has helped facilitate this in many countries, in Sierra Leone very little has changed, for while the regulations and legislation are in place, very little enforcement or compliance actually occur. Some speculate that the nebulous nature of licensing, fees, and ownership is deliberate, as everyone from journalists and shopkeepers, to chiefs and mines officials seem to have artisanal diggers whom they marginally support on a subsistence basis.
The lack of environmental legislation enforcement has consequently resulted in an increase in illicit diamond mining companies operating in the Kono District. There has been controversy between mining companies and local residents resulting in new negotiations. Given this, there is potential to improve environmental policy and corporate responsibility. Ultimately, land reclamation should be carried out by the mining company or miners.
Since the war, there have been mass migrations of youth into the city of Freetown, decimating the rural farming populations who were feeding the nation, and causing major destruction to the Western Peninsular Area and health concerns as so many vie for scant resources such as fuel wood and water.
Since 2002 there have been numerous periods of soaring prices on basic food stuffs such as rice, which used to be locally produced but are now being imported. Thus the food security of this incredibly fertile nation has been compromised for low quality at high costs.
Agriculture in the Kono District has been devastated by indiscriminate extraction of diamonds during the civil war. This practice continues today as foreign companies and local miners vie for diamond mining rights. The landscape is altered significantly in this process, and the productive top layers of soil are lost as they are buried under gravel and mining debris. In addition, local streams and rivers become polluted with sediment and ground water levels are altered, compromising local fish and freshwater habitat.
As small scale alluvial and artisanal mining continues in the Kono district, it is becoming less and less productive. The effects of this are threefold: mining must be deeper and on a larger scale to access deposits not yet mined-out, creating more destruction and forcing out artisanal miners; diggers begin to look for other livelihoods, such as agriculture; and because mining companies are the only ones capable of working these deposits, they create heavier impacts but are more clearly responsible for the recovery efforts.
Promoting agriculture on previously mined areas will also limit encroachment into forested regions and shelter endemic species and local biodiversity.
The refilling of pits protects fresh water and ground water sources by reducing erosion and siltation of streams. It also benefits communities as it can minimize health concerns such as stagnant water, drownings, and breeding of mosquitoes in unfilled pits.
Land reclamation is beneficial to communities as it can be useful in asserting solutions for social development issues such as eradicating extreme hunger and poverty by providing more land for food production and alternative livelihoods.
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29:25
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
From Director Pete Moi Conteh:
A few years ago when I made ‘Diamonds on the Soles of Her ...
published: 30 Apr 2012
author: Sombra Projects
Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes
From Director Pete Moi Conteh:
A few years ago when I made ‘Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes’ I was asked to write some words to introduce the film, here’s what I came up with:
For me the contrast between the perception of diamonds as a girl's best friend, the ultimate gift of undying love; and the reality of the diamond pipeline: stones extracted from the dirt, diggers paid in cups of rice, served as an initial stimulus for this project. On a more personal level, as a born Sierra Leonean, the recent end of the country's civil war, afforded me the opportunity to travel to the diamondiferous areas where the conflict had been concentrated.
The ten years of civil war were primarily a struggle between rebel forces, loosely organised under the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and those loyal to the government. The RUF funded their campaign by seizing control of the diamond-producing districts of Kono and Tongo fields; thus linking any investigation into the gem trade in Sierra Leone to the recently halted conflict. I was curious to discover the exact role of diamonds in the civil war, how the gems were mined, who was buying the illicitly mined 'blood diamonds,' and how they were smuggled from Sierra Leone into the global market.
I see the resulting film as an anthropologically informed current affairs program. Revealing the murky world of the diamond pipeline in Sierra Leone, 'Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes' focuses on how gems are mined, sold and exported from the country. It is also an exploration of the appalling conditions in which the diamonds are mined. During the recent civil war armed-militia forced people to dig for diamonds using guns paid for with the very stones they were mining for, in conditions that could and did claim lives.
In the diamond mines of Koidu, northeastern Sierra Leone, involvement in diamond mining is a way of life for many; children and adults labour long hours digging, 'tripping' and sifting through muddy gravel. This harshness is not unusual in this impoverished part of the world; exploitation and child labour are a way of life, but dreams of sudden wealth inure people to the daily hardship. Gems mined here are bought and sold by dealers in Bo, Kenema and Freetown before being smuggled and sold into the international diamond pipeline.
The strong characters I met through contacts and fixers I had already established bring this story to life. From Ali Fofanah working in terrible conditions for a pittance in alluvial mines around Koidu, to dealers such as Idris - a diamond 'exporter' plying his trade in Sierra Leone. Over the course of two months I intimately followed and filmed these people, learning about the lives of diggers and gem-dealers. This experience of in-depth research and my heritage meant I had intimate access to the diamond-trade and the cultures surrounding it in Sierra Leone; 'Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes' reveals an unseen side to the global trade in diamonds, documenting the everyday lives of diggers, dealers and exporters.
Reviewing the film today, seven years later, it strikes me how little things have changed in Sierra Leone. As the country enters its fifty-first year of independence, civil war, ‘blood diamonds’ and war tribunals are still topics most people associate with this part of the world. With Charles Taylor recently found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during his time as president of neighboring Liberia, it seems Sierra Leoneans, at home and abroad may start to feel able to utilise the country’s resources to build the infrastructure necessary to develop the country.
As is usual when watching something made a while ago, each over-exposed sequence, each dropped frame makes you wish you’d spent those few extra minutes on location or in edit to correct these perceived errors. On one hand they point to the incomplete nature of the filmmakers skills, on the other – a point of view I’m starting to come round to – these inconsistencies match the corrupt nature of topic, the diamond trade itself.
29:34
Les diamants de Koidu - Sierra Leone 2001
Petit film tourné en 2001, lors d'une mission d'évaluation humanitaire dans l'Est de la Si...
published: 06 Feb 2011
author: erwan le grand
Les diamants de Koidu - Sierra Leone 2001
Petit film tourné en 2001, lors d'une mission d'évaluation humanitaire dans l'Est de la Sierra Leone, au cœur d'une région alors occupée par les rebelles du Front Révolutionnaire Uni (RUF), groupe armé fondé par Foday Sankoh et principal responsable de la guerre civile dans le pays. A la suite d'un accord de cessez-le-feu signé fin 2000, les troupes du RUF se préparent à désarmer et démobiliser.
Profitant des dernières semaines de chaos dans la zone diamantifère de Koidu (district de Kono), des milliers d'ex-rebelles creusent et tamisent ce qu'ils peuvent de terre et de boue dans et autour de la ville. Certains bâtiments s'effondrent sous les effets de ce travail de sape désordonné. Les rives de la rivière ressemblent à un immense champ de bataille. Dans le film, vers la dix-huitième minute, on peut voir quelques-un de ces mineurs improvisés.
Un autre passage (vers la 16ème minute) mérite d'être vu: la Ministre de l'éducation du RUF nous fait visiter une école ravagée où des élèves entonnent fièrement l'hymne officiel du mouvement "RUF is fighting to save our people, to save our country...".
Quelques mois plus tard, le RUF sera entièrement démobilisé pour se transformer ensuite en parti politique. Ses principaux leader seront inculpés pour crimes contre l'humanité, crime de guerre entre autres.
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Passing Koidu Holding Mine in Kono, January 2013
published: 04 Jun 2013
author: Laura Miller
Passing Koidu Holding Mine in Kono, January 2013
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Koidu tänaval põles auto
Üks vana video ajast, kui hoovis seisvad autod aeg-ajalt põlema kippusid minema. Need kaad...
published: 12 May 2014
Koidu tänaval põles auto
Koidu tänaval põles auto
Üks vana video ajast, kui hoovis seisvad autod aeg-ajalt põlema kippusid minema. Need kaadrid on filmitud Koidu tänaval, kus tuli oli otsa pandud ühele mõnda aega maja hoovis seisnud autole.- published: 12 May 2014
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0:36
Alina @Koidu Studio
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published: 06 Mar 2014
Alina @Koidu Studio
Alina @Koidu Studio
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Lidia @Koidu Studio
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published: 07 Mar 2014
Lidia @Koidu Studio
Lidia @Koidu Studio
Follow me: www.facebook.com/ToryGPhotography www.instagram.com/vir4ello www.shutterstock.com/g/Viktoria+Gavrilina- published: 07 Mar 2014
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