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Pompidou Center showcases works collected by perennial rebel Jean-Jacques Lebel. The head of state, who showed the gem to the press on August 22, knows all too well the profit his country of 2. According to several experts, the half-kilogram stone is the second-largest diamond ever found, and the largest in a century.
History proves the Botswanan president's point. Since independence in , diamond sales have financed numerous roads, hospitals and schools in this country the size of France. Botswana is Africa's leading diamond producer and the second largest in the world, behind Russia. With two months to go before the presidential election — in which he is a candidate — Masisi pulled out all the stops at the presentation of this new national jewel.
In front of the television cameras assembled in his State House office, he meticulously inspected this rare, translucent object the size of a tennis ball. Wearing jeweler's glasses, he made a dramatic face and exclaimed, "Wow!
