Canada: Trudeau pledges $1 million for clearing landmines, cluster bombs in Cambodia and Laos

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has wrapped up his first stop of a tour in Southeast Asia by announcing nearly $1 million to help remove unexploded landmines and cluster bombs from the region. He made the $990,000 pledge at an event Read More …

Cambodia: UNESCAP to support national mine action policy

Ly Thuch, first vice-president of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), said the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) would support the body in formulating national policy on mine action and holding Read More …

Ukraine accused of using controversial ‘butterfly’ mines against Russia

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) recently accused the Ukrainian Armed Forces of planting PFM-1s, also known as butterfly mines, throughout residential areas of Russian-controlled Donbas. The Russian MFA also claimed that “the use of butterfly mines goes against Read More …

Iraq: Demining agency clears minefields near Choman

The Explosive Ordnance Disposal team of Mine Action Agency cleared some minefields in Choman city near the Iraqi-Iranian border on Nov. 9, according to the announcement of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The agency’s demining teams of DE1 and Mechanical in Read More …

Inside the painstaking search for five million decaying bombs in Cambodia

On a steep and slippery hillside beside a quiet village in Battambang province in north-west Cambodia, a small team is hard at work clearing land mines from conflicts decades ago. It is an arduous and painstaking task, with de-miners using Read More …

Ukraine: State Duma deputy’s security car blows up on French HPD anti-tank mine in Kherson region

The security car of State Duma deputy Alexander Borodai was reportedly blown up by a mine in the Kherson region, as reported on Monday, November 7. According to military correspondent Chingis Dambiev via his Telegram channel, the State Duma deputy’s Read More …

Yemen: Houthis reveal latest mine and cluster bomb casualty statistics

The Houthis in Yemen announced yesterday that 643 people have been killed and wounded in its areas of control since the beginning of this year as a direct result of mines and cluster bombs in the war that is in Read More …

Ukraine: Mine clearance of entire Luhansk Oblast will take at least 10 years

It will take at least 10 years to demine the entire occupied part of Luhansk Oblast. Serhii Haidai, Head of the Luhansk Oblast Military Administration on air during the national joint 24/7 newscast “It will take at least 10 years Read More …

Cambodia: CMAA set to celebrate 30th anniversary of demining efforts with eye on 2025

The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) is set to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the start of efforts to demine Cambodia, which began in earnest in 1992. The events planned are set to take place over November Read More …

Two separate landmine explosions kill four people in Yemen

Two separate landmine explosions killed four Yemenis in two regions of the war-ravaged Arab country on Tuesday, a military official told Xinhua. “Three people, including two children, were killed in Hodeidah’s southern district of Durayhimi by an explosion caused by Read More …

Azerbaijan: Construction company’s driver hits landmine in Jabrayil District

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 …

Sappers from Cambodia, one of the most mined countries, will train Ukrainian colleagues

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky agreed with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on cooperation. Our sappers will be trained by colleagues from the mentioned Asian country. According to The Washington Post, Zelensky held a telephone conversation with Hun Sen. As Read More …

Cambodia: GMAC mobilising support for mine clearance

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has pledged to mobilise support from around 700 of its member companies for demining work in Cambodia, with a fund-raising event scheduled for November 17. The pledge came at a meeting between Ly Read More …

Iraq: Two UN employees killed by landmine at explosive ordnance clearance site near Basra

Two Iraqi UN employees were killed and a third person injured in an accident on Monday near the southern Iraqi city of Basra. The staff members were part of a team working for the UN’s Mine Action Service (Unmas) at Read More …

Nigeria: 775 killed, 1,321 injured by remnant of explosive ordnance in Northeast

The Federal Government has disclosed that 755 civilians have been killed and 1,321 injured by the remnants of Explosive Ordnance (EO) in the Northeast in the last six years. The Federal Government also said the figure indicates that at least Read More …

Mali: Two MINUSMA peacekeepers killed in IED blast in Tessalit, Kidal region

Two MINUSMA peacekeepers were killed today, 17 October, when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device during a search and detection patrol of mines in Tessalit, Kidal region. This incident also resulted in 4 serious injuries among peacekeepers. Read More …

The US Army is spending $353 million on a suitcase-size weapon that can ‘hear’ and fire armor-piercing slugs at enemy tanks

The US Army is developing a smart anti-tank mine that detects the sounds of enemy vehicles and then destroys them with an armor-piercing slug. Gone are the World War II-era buried mines that resembled dinner plates or Frisbees. The XM204 Read More …

Germany once again allocates 95.000 Euros to support Mine Victims in BiH

The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Thomas Fitschen signed an agreement yesterday with the local non-governmental organization “Mine Detection Dog Center” (MDDC) on the provision of funds in the amount of 95,000 euros Read More …

Ukraine: Combine harvester blown up on enemy mine in Kryvyi Rih district

In the Kryvyi Rih district, a combine harvester was blown up after it ran over an enemy mine. The driver is alive. Yevhen Sytnychenko, the head of the Kryvyi Rih District Military Administration, said this in a Telegram post, Ukrinform Read More …