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The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) revealed that in 2023, over 30 individuals experienced the impact of explosive ordnance, marking a 24 per cent decrease from the same period in 2022. CMAA spokesman Lang Kosal shared on Read More …
WASHINGTON – U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians participated in a forum conducted by one of the nation’s premier engineering schools to learn better ways to confront and defeat cluster munitions during large-scale combat operations. Army EOD technicians attended the Read More …
EORE is one of the five pillars of mine action. Over the years, a wide range of approaches to EORE have been used in mine action programmes worldwide. Much less attention, however, has been given to how to approach EORE Read More …
An anti-tank mine exploded while a farmer was ploughing in Battambang province on Friday. The blast caused severe injuries to him and destroyed his tractor. The victim, Phon Phet, 28, was clearing the land for a cassava plantation when the Read More …
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged $4.5 billion to Ukraine, including $1 billion in humanitarian aid to help support the war-torn country’s recovery effort in an online summit of leading industrial nations. Kishida made the announcement late Wednesday in Tokyo while Read More …
Ly Thuch, Senior Minister and First Vice President of the Mine Authority, on behalf of Dr. Hun Manet, Prime Minister of Cambodia and Chairman of the Mine Authority, on December 5, 2023, presided over the declaration of Puok District, Siem Read More …
The Iraqi Kurdistan Mine Action Agency (IKMAA) announced on Tuesday that they had destroyed more than 564 mines in the Penjwen district of Sulaimani province. Jabar Mustafa Rasul, the director of the agency, revealed in a press conference that Penjwen Read More …
Slovenia will provide €1.5 million to Ukraine for humanitarian demining. The agreement was signed by Andrii Taran, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Slovenia, and Tanja Fajon, Slovenian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs. Following the Read More …
The Falkland Islands Government has confirmed that a number of mines have been discovered on Hell’s Kitchen beach on the designated Government Reserve, located on the Murrell Peninsula East Falkland, north of Stanley. The area was a suspect area on Read More …
Dozens of fighters from IS-affiliated jihadist group have been killed in a landmine explosion in the Lake Chad region in northeast Nigerian Borno, anti-jihadist militia leaders told AFP Monday. Two trucks loaded with militants from the Islamic State West Africa Read More …
Japanese Ambassador in Sri Lanka – Mr. Mizukoshi Hideaki yesterday (Nov. 27) signed the grant contracts of two demining projects under the scheme of “Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP)”, with Ms. Cristy McLennan, Country Director of the Read More …
Decades after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990-1991, the specter of landmines continues to haunt the Gulf emirate, claiming lives and causing injuries, even among those born after the end of the Gulf War. The situation is particularly dire for Read More …
Japan plans to join a multinational project to clear land mines in Ukraine, a government source said Tuesday, as the country continues to resist Russia’s invasion. Under the project being planned by the U.S.-led “Ukrainian Defense Contact Group,” Japan’s Self-Defense Read More …
The Belgian government once again contributed about $802,000 to the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Iraq in support of essential mine action operations. Delivering effective and sustainable explosive hazard management assistance as well as offering technical and advisory Read More …
The Danish Refugee Council recently announced that Afghanistan is recognized as one of the countries in the world with the highest landmine-affected areas. The pervasive presence of landmines in Afghanistan poses a significant humanitarian challenge, affecting the safety and livelihoods Read More …
Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) officials expect to reach 1.4 million people in their efforts to educate members of the public in high-risk areas about the dangers posed by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO). Ly Thuch, CMAA Read More …
The areas of Ukraine that border the Russian Federation, including Kyiv, Volyn, Rivne, and Zhytomyr, have been mined with a total of 500,000 mines Colonel Vladyslav Seleznov, former head of the press service of the Ukrainian General Staff, revealed this Read More …
Geneva, Switzerland – November 16, 2023 The GICHD Innovation Conference 2023, a groundbreaking event aimed at harnessing the potential of innovation to reduce the risks caused by landmines, cluster munitions and other explosive ordnance, came to a successful close today. The conference, which ran Read More …
Cambodia has taken another step closer to reaching the mine-free goal after the northeastern province of Mondulkiri was declared clear of landmines, becoming the 14th province to have gained that status. Mondulkiri is Cambodia’s largest and also the most sparsely Read More …
So far 87 percent of all wartime landmines have been removed and the Government hopes to have the last out by 2025, Minister of Defence Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri told her Ministry’s strategic planning workshop being held in Mutare this week. “We Read More …