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Syria and Ukraine signed a high-level humanitarian cooperation agreement on Sunday at the Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management in Damascus to enhance demining operations, technical surveying, and sustainable agricultural recovery. The agreement was signed by Syrian Civil Defense Director Read More …
Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than three decades after the end of the war, has about 756 square kilometers of mine-suspected area, while the number of people trained in mine countermeasures has almost halved compared to the period before the coronavirus Read More …
A senior Lao official has warned that an estimated 80 million unexploded munitions remain buried across Laos, while cuts in international funding could slow clearance work and prolong the threat to civilian lives. The National Regulatory Authority for UXO/Mine Action Read More …
The Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) announced on Thursday the signing of two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with the Danish Refugee Council’s mine action program to expand demining and explosive-risk reduction efforts across the country. Valued at 4,131,741 U.S. Read More …
Clearing the unexploded ordnance (UXOs) left by the 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border clashes could cost approximately $1 billion and take more than a decade, according to a preliminary estimate by the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC). The cleanup places new financial Read More …
South Korea and a UN development body have signed an agreement on mine clearance cooperation, as part of Seoul’s broader push to enhance public safety through global standards, the defense ministry said Wednesday. The ministry signed a statement of intent Read More …
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army will send troops to Russia to participate in a field training exercise for demining, a defense spokesperson said on Friday. The field training exercise of the Experts’ Working Group (EWG) on Humanitarian Mine Action under Read More …
The United States has provided $13 million to Cambodia in 2026 to support landmine and unexploded ordnance clearance in border areas affected by the 2025 conflict with Thailand, the US Embassy says. The embassy announced the additional assistance on its Read More …
A NATO delegation led by Eirini Lemos-Maniati, head of the alliance’s Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation section, is visiting Azerbaijan to participate in the 4th International Mine Action Conference as a panel speaker. During the visit, Samir Poladov, deputy chairman of Read More …
Twenty-five veterans and family members from Ukraine’s Kharkiv Oblast have completed a UNDP-supported retraining programme and are now qualified to work in humanitarian demining. The eight-week training programme combined classroom instruction with intensive practical exercises at a training site near Read More …
Two people were killed and others injured on Monday when an old artillery shell exploded near Kani Maran village in Iraq’s Halabja province, police and health officials said. Halabja Police spokesperson Akam Qutb Al-Din said the shell detonated while it Read More …
Cambodia will officially launch its National Policy on Mine Action 2026-2035 on September 2, providing a 10-year roadmap for mine action and victim assistance. The policy was approved by the Council of Ministers during its plenary session on April 23, according Read More …
The project “Landmine and unexploded ordnance clearance in northern Quang Tri, 2026-2030”, funded by the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), is expected to clear more than 38.8 million sq.m of land for community development in accordance with current standards, while removing Read More …
A tractor hit a mine in the village of Dudukchu in Azerbaijan”s Khojavand district, injuring the driver, according to a joint statement by the press services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General”s Office and the Azerbaijan Mine Read More …
The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) of MONUSCO destroyed several explosive remnants of war on August 18 in the town of Bule, located in Djugu Territory, Ituri Province. The operation eliminated a direct threat to civilians while also strengthening Read More …
Russian specialists have developed a laser device for remote mine clearance based on a robotic platform that renders munitions harmless at a distance of up to 500 meters by burning away the explosive material without detonation. The laser is mounted Read More …
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev expressed gratitude to the UK government for its assistance with mine clearance efforts. According to Report, the head of state made the remarks during a meeting with the new Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain Read More …
In Ukraine, which is currently one of the most heavily mined countries in the world, most land is cleared of shells, mines, and other ordnance through illegal means. According to unofficial estimates from those surveyed LIGA.net according to farmers, between 50% and Read More …
A 500-kilogram unexploded bomb was discovered in the courtyard of a house in the Askar Kot Bazaar area of Qarabagh district in Ghazni province and was safely removed from the area before being destroyed. The Mine Action Coordination Directorate of Read More …
A mine incident occurred in the village of Sariyel village of the liberated Kalbajar district, on August 13, the General Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) said in a joint statement. Read More …