>>blood diamonds<<
I was going to post related info to how many ‘political influences’ are connected to blood, or conflict, diamonds; but it may hijack the thread.
But it is very relevant that Luo Tribe is/was the controlling trade route tribe out of East Africa. Obama’s family is the Luo Tribe.
>>and the sex slave trade<<
Amazingly enough (sarc), there is also a huge human trafficking issue that is also traded. Some of these same political areas that are big on blood diamonds, also have quite a large human trafficking/sex trade influence.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1472612/posts
Sex Tourism: Addressing the Demand for Trafficking
. . . .and of course Michelle Obama "grew up in Jesse Jackson's house". . . .