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GABORONE (Reuters) – De Beers is bringing its sales activities back to Botswana’s capital Gaborone, it said on Thursday, almost two years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to be held in cities including Antwerp and Dubai. The Anglo American subsidiary had moved its pre-sale viewings – a marketing exercise to showcase its new batch of diamonds – from Botswana in May 2020 when travel restrictions to curb the pandemic prevented its international customers from flying to the Southern African country. Customers from across the world fly ten times a year to participate in week-long diamond sal…