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The police received information about the explosion of a military device in a beekeeping farm in Chartar village of Khojavend district. The Mine Action Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan (ANAMA) announced the details of the explosion, noting that the Read More …
A landmine explosion in Aghdam district has resulted in injury of one person. On January 21 at about 13:30 the Aghdam district police were informed about a mine explosion. A resident of Aghjabadi district Faig Sayyad (born in 1980) was Read More …
On October 13, a landmine explosion occurred in the village of Ashaghi Veysalli, Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli district, the Interior Ministry and the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency (ANAMA) said in a joint statement. As a result of the explosion of an anti-tank Read More …
Civilian harm from new use of cluster munitions and recent transfers of the weapon show the urgent need for all countries to join the international ban on cluster munitions, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing the 96-page global “Cluster Read More …
About 3,350 people have become victims of mines in Azerbaijan over the past 30 years, Trend reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) revealed the above figures in its Facebook publication. The ICRC also said that together with Read More …
A 33-year-old civilian was injured in an anti-personnel landmine explosion in the direction of Sugovushan village of Azerbaijan’s Tartar district, the press service of the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency (ANAMA) told News.Az. Khazar Babashov, a driver of the International Eurasian Read More …
Lithuania will be assisting Azerbaijan in the area of mine action through the EU Team Europe Initiative in 2023, the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Trend. “Azerbaijan is one of Lithuania’s strongest partners in terms of the number of Read More …
The Jabrayil District Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan received information on a landmine explosion in liberated Jabrayil, the Office told Trend. According to the preliminary investigation, driver of Azerbaijan’s construction company Ilgar Ahmadov was severely injured after hitting an anti-personnel landmine Read More …
Azerbaijani Mine Action Agency chief Vugar Suleymanov and German ambassador to Azerbaijan Ralf Horlemann have discussed the cooperation in demining Azerbaijan’s liberated lands, Azernews reports. Suleymanov briefed the ambassador on the agency’s history, general directions of activities, demining operations undertaken Read More …
UK ambassador James Sharp has said that his country will expand cooperation with Azerbaijan in demining Karabakh, Azernews reports. “Mine detection dogs cope with this difficult task [demining] very well. Thanks to them, people’s lives are less at risk. We Read More …
An Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency employee was injured in a mine blast in the Gubadli District, Azernews reports, citing the agency. Nacmaddin Huseynov (38), the agency’s mine-detecting dog guide, suffered minor injuries as a result of an anti-personnel mine detonation Read More …
This morning, three persons have been blown up by a mine in the Fizuli District of Azerbaijan. The victims have got injuries of varying severity. The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on July 11, the European Union (EU) announced the Read More …
The UK Government is providing a further £500,000 to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to support land mine clearance in Armenia and Azerbaijan. New funding will provide vital training and expert advice to make the area safe, prevent injuries Read More …
Units of the Azerbaijan Army are continuing disposal of expired and unusable ammunition in a planned manner in compliance with safety measures, Azernews reports, citing the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry. According to the ministry, the process will be carried out from Read More …
The United States-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce (USACC), in partnership with the Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI), the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States, hosted “The Voice of Read More …
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is supporting the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency in obtaining best practices, UNDP official in Azerbaijan Sukhrob Khojimatov said, Trend reports. “We are going to attract specialists from Turkey, Cambodia and other countries to develop Read More …
One person was killed and five were wounded in mine explosions in Azerbaijan from January to February, Trend has reported. “One person was killed and five people were injured as a result of explosions of mines and unexploded ordnance from Read More …
Emergencies Ministry officers have seized shells and munitions in a settlement near the capital Baku, Trend has reported. Acting on a tip-off received at the ministry’s hotline 112 about the discovery of military ammunition in Khirdalan town’s Gushchuluq settlement, a Read More …
The Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) and the British non-governmental organization (NGO) Mines Advisory Group (MAG) have signed a memorandum of understanding, Trend reports citing the ANAMA. “According to the plan jointly prepared within the framework of the Read More …
Azerbaijan will purchase new mine detection robots to use them in the lands liberated from the Armenian occupation, Azerbaijani Minister of Emergency Situations Kamaladdin Heydarov told reporters, Trend reports. Heydarov added that the number of mine detector specialists is being Read More …