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One person has been injured following a landmine explosion in the liberated Kalafaliq village of Azerbaijan’s Lachin district, Trend reports via the joint statement of the nation’s Interior Ministry, Prosecutor General’s Office, and Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA). Read More …
Several people have been injured following explosion of landmines laid during Armenian occupation in Gizilhajili village of Azerbaijan’s Gazakh district, Trend reports via the joint statement of the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office, State Border Service and Azerbaijan National Agency for Read More …
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is partnering with the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to test cutting-edge demining technologies in the previously occupied community of Kamianka in Kharkiv Oblast. This collaboration between the Read More …
Lithuania will start building permanent border fortification at two locations in September and the first counter-mobility park will be opened at the end of August, Defence Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas has said. “On August 22, we will invite you all to Read More …
At least seven Nigerian soldiers were killed after a mine exploded on a highway in Borno state, the hotbed of a Boko Haram militant insurgency, two vigilante officers said on Friday. A local vigilante officer helping to combat the insurgents, Read More …
The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) called on the public to be vigilant during and after floods because of the risk that they could unearth landmines due to landslides or runoff. According to the announcement from the Read More …
Bedrettin Düzen, a 32-year-old shepherd, was killed by a landmine explosion in the Doskî Valley region of Yüksekova district in the eastern province of Hakkari. Düzen was grazing his animals when he stepped on a landmine, resulting in severe injuries. Read More …
A civilian was injured on Tuesday in the explosion of a landmine in the military buffer zone of Jabal Salloum in Tunisia’s western province of Kasserine, the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) reported. Wounded in his leg and right hand, the Read More …
A local resident unearthed around 50 unexploded PMN-type anti-personal landmines in a field in Battambang province’s O’Kaki village on July 21, according to a National Police statement. According to the July 22 announcement, the unexploded ordnance (UXO) was discovered in Read More …
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Afghanistan (OCHA) says that explosive devices kill 110 people every month across the country. This report states that since 1989, 45,000 people have been victims of landmines and explosive remnants in Read More …
On July 19, a landmine detonation occurred near the village of Aghdaban in the Kalbajar district, in an area not yet cleared of mines. Three individuals suffered in the explosion, with one person directly triggering the anti-personnel mine and another Read More …
Following decades of war, Afghanistan has one of the highest levels of explosive hazard contamination in the world including both legacy explosive contamination and new types of explosive hazards, in particular Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), as well as explosive remnants Read More …
For seven years, soldiers from the Colombian National Army’s Humanitarian Demining Engineer Battalion No. 2 have been working on eliminating explosive devices in the municipality of Roncesvalles, Tolima department, in Colombia’s central mountain range. In this area, where 14 victims Read More …
Ukrainian Colonel Ruslan Berehulia, head of the Ministry of Defense’s Environmental Safety and Mine Action Department, reported that Defense Ministry specialists have cleared 30,000 square kilometers of Ukraine over the past two years – an area comparable to the size Read More …
Three people lost their lives on Sunday, in Ndunda neighbourhood, in the Beira central Mozambican city of Beira, following the explosion of a device which may have been a land mine. According to Monday’s issue of the independent daily “O Read More …
The European Union has been resolutely engaged in favour of mine victims and persons with disabilities through its policies and assistance, in particular in the implementation of the Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/257 which provides for national stakeholder dialogues to encourage Read More …
The IAEA team at ZNPP reported hearing explosions, including close to the plant, on several days over the past week. They confirmed with the plant that one of the mines located next to the ZNPP cooling pond area exploded on Read More …
In the framework of support given since 2019 to the activities of the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Iraq and Syria, Belgium has decided on a new contribution of 1.5 million euros in 2024. In recent years, Belgium has Read More …
This is the dramatic moment a team from Putin’s state TV are sent flying by a motion-activated mine dropped by a drone over the Russian border. The blast was caught on camera as the pro-war channel Rossiya-24 crew were filming Read More …
Deminer Tetiana Shpak crouched down in a once tranquil poppy-strewn field in southern Ukraine, now littered with Russian mines. More women like her are joining mine-clearance teams, where they now account for 30 percent of personnel, according to official data. Read More …