West African Diamonds, a subisidiary of African Diamonds, has a new Managing Director in Kevin Dabinett. He brings 30 years of African mining experience and his most recent position was with Petra Diamonds as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer. West African Diamonds has three projects that Dabinett will be working on initially; a diamond and gold recovery plant near Koidu, Sierra Leone, a diamond mining opportunity in Bomboko, Guinea and a diamond dyke sampling program in Koidu as well. West African Diamonds is currently looking to be listed separately on the London Stock Exchange`s Alternative Investment Market and this should take place for the last quarter of 2006.