Demining exercise benefits communities in Zimbabwe's border region

Mount Darwin District in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland Central Province has been declared landmine free following landmine clearance efforts by the government.

The southern African country is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world, where landmines have killed more than 1,500 people and 120,000 head of livestock since Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980.

Belts of landmines were planted by Rhodesian colonial forces along the country’s frontiers between Mozambique and Zambia during the liberation war in the 1970s.