Conflict diamonds from the Central African Republic (CAR) are entering the supply chain because of poor prevention controls,...Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) alleged... PAC blamed Cameroon for failing to implement KP guidelines that are intended to prevent the export of diamonds used to fund rebel wars... The KP suspended CAR in 2013, meaning it was banned from exporting rough diamonds, after rebels took over the nation’s governance. Certain regions of CAR were declared compliant and re-admitted this year so that the country can ship a limited volume of diamonds... 

Ahmed Bin Sulayem,...chair of the KP for 2016, said the monitoring team overseeing exports from CAR has been probing the issue for several months... “As the PAC study correctly notes, the actual rough diamond production of Cameroon is extremely small...,” Bin Sulayem continued. “The larger picture is, of course, the illicit trade coming from CAR. When we consider that one out of four people in CAR live directly or indirectly from mining diamonds, we must ensure that we are not inhibiting or starving a population by making rules, procedures and guidelines that will prevent them entirely from being economically active,” Bin Sulayem said.