Kassim Basma (1960 - 29 December 2018) in

Koidu Koidu Town (or Sefadu; officially known as Koidu City) is the capital and largest city of the Kono District in the Eastern Province, Sierra Leone, Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Its population is 128,030 based on the 2015 census. It is the fi ...

Town,

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is . It has a tropical climate and envi ...

) is a multimillionaire Sierra Leonean businessman and the second leading diamond exporter from Sierra Leone, accounting for around 38% of all official Sierra Leone diamond exports. Basma was born in

Kono District Kono District is a district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Its capital and largest city is Koidu Town. Motema is the second most populous city in the district. The other major towns in the district include Yengema, Tombodu, Jaiama ...

in Eastern Sierra Leone. Basma was interviewed by Greg Campbell for his book ''

Blood Diamonds Blood diamonds (also called conflict diamonds, brown diamonds, hot diamonds, or red diamonds) are diamonds Diamond mining, mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, terrorism, or a warlord's activity ...

: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones'' (2012). Kassim Basma is dead, he died 29 Dec 2018, out of Sierra Leone. After the death of Kassim Basma, his son Jihad Basma took over the business.

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1960 births Living people Sierra Leonean businesspeople Sierra Leonean people of Lebanese descent People from Koidu {{Africa-business-bio-stub