Indigenous San people (known in the complaint as First People of the Kalahari, Botswana) filed a complaint in November 2004 regarding this proposed diamond mine (operating as Sekaka Diamonds in Botswana), alleging they have been illegally evicted from their traditional hunting grounds because of the project.

This is an IFC-proposed diamond mine in Botswana . The total investment in the project is US$20 million. Kalahari Diamonds is sponsored by BHP Billiton Plc, which own 20 percent of the company. Several institutions in the diamond industry, along with institutional investors (including IFC), make up the remaining 80 percent of the project investment. IFC's participation is US$2 million in the form of an A Loan for IFC's own account.

The CAO appraised and accepted the complaint. CAO's Senior Specialist visited the site in January 2005 and prepared an assessment report, released in June 2005, which found that the San people were displaced due to a policy by the Government of Botswana unrelated to the diamond exploration activities. The CAO found that the mine was not invasive or disruptive to the San's traditional hunting and gathering way of life.