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The handbook for Capacity Development in Mine Action was published to capture the wealth of UNDP’s experience of developing capacities in mine action programming and share the best practices and lessons learned with national and international development partners. UNDP Lao Read More …
Construction workers in Leipzig discovered the 100 kg bomb at around 10.38 am while working on the construction site in front of the police headquarters on Dimitroffstraße (city centre), according to local reports. Following the discovery, the entire city centre Read More …
At least 108 Yemeni civilians have been killed by landmines, cluster bombs, and other fatal remnants of the Saudi-led war since a UN-brokered truce came into effect in Yemen in April, a report said. The Yemen Executive Mine Action Centre Read More …
Long after the enemy forces have laid down their arms, peace accords have been signed and victories celebrated, there is still a heavy toll to be paid. Most of this comes in the form of unexploded ordnance, including landmines and Read More …
Iran and Armenia signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of mine clearance. Director of Armenian’s Center for Humanitarian Demining and Expertise (CHDE) Vaghinak Sargsyan visited the demining center of the Iranian Defense Ministry’s department of defense engineering and Read More …
Three siblings were killed in an explosion as a result of an unexploded ordnance (UXO), the fourth sibling was also injured in the explosion which occurred in Duram village in North Darfur, on Friday. Sources told Radio Dabanga that the 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 …
Stirring a renaissance in areas plagued by land mines from past conflicts, the NGO Mines Advisory Group, known as MAG, is an NGO committed to the removal of landmines in the Eastern Provinces of Angola. With the support of the Read More …
At least one person was killed and 13 others sustained injuries in an explosion in Balochistan province’s capital Quetta’s Sabzal Road on Friday. As per the details garnered, the explosion occurred in Pod Gali Chowk on Quetta’s Sabzal Road. According Read More …
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force removed 294 kilograms Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) at Taro airstrip in Choiseul Province on 12 September 2022. Deputy Commissioner for National Security and Operation Support, Ian Vaevaso said the Read More …
A total of 72 people were killed in Mali by explosive devices between January and August in 2022, said a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) released Monday in Bamako, capital of Mali. Read More …
Unexploded ordnance (UXO) has caused great harm to the development of Laos, highlighting the need for its accelerated clearance, the Lao newspaper Vientiane Times reported Monday citing a top United Nations (UN) official. The UN Assistant Secretary-General and United Nations Read More …
A Soviet second world war aerial bomb weighing 100kg has been found in the Danube in central Budapest, a Hungarian Armed Forces spokesman said on Thursday. The bomb will be removed from the riverbed on Monday, Lieutenant Milán Gajdos of Read More …
As powerful barges manned by the Bangladeshi Marine Force Unit deployed to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) make their careful way across the overflowing waters of the White Nile, the air is laced with expectation. Lush, thick Read More …
Police said they will dispose of a naval mine from World War II in the eastern waters of Hong Kong Island on Friday. Officers said they found the mine 1.4 kilometres off Cape D’Aguilar near Shek O after receiving a Read More …
Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) recorded 40 casualties from landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) in the first eight months of this year, an increase of 21 % compared with 33 over the same period last Read More …
Eight grenades have been discovered buried in a back garden in Bristol. The explosives, thought to date back to the First World War, were accidentally dug up. Henleaze Avenue was closed while a police explosives team was brought in. Initially, Read More …
Four children were killed after a unexploded ordnance (UO) detonated in an abandoned apartment in Idlib, North West Syria, on Monday, Save the Children said. This follows an explosion of another landmine on farmland in Homs in which three other Read More …
As a result of the explosion of a grenade launcher at the munitions exhibition, four children were injured, one of which was rushed to an intensive care unit. That’s according to the Suspilne public broadcaster, Ukrinform reports. “It was confirmed Read More …
Two children, who were brothers, died as a result of the explosion of a grenade, an unexploded explosive remnant of war, in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, according to local Taliban authorities. The event took place on Wednesday, the Read More …