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China and Cambodia will jointly chair a meeting on humanitarian demining action via video link on Sept 14, Chinese Ministry of National Defence spokesperson Tan Kefei said on Thursday (Aug 26) at a press conference. Attendees at the meeting of Read More …
International military forces leave behind a country facing growing insecurity and levels of violence, a faltering economy and multiple humanitarian crises. Buried amongst the dozens of pressing challenges in Afghanistan is an issue that rarely receives the international spotlight: the Read More …
Migrants attempting to cross into Western Europe via the so-called Balkan route face several risks including drowning, abuse, exploitation and gender-based violence. Added to that is the risk posed by land mines. The Bosnia and Herzegovina Mine Action Centre estimates Read More …
Chalak Taha has spent most of the last 27 years searching the mountains for danger. Tucked among dry grasses on a steep hillside outside Wilyawa village in Sulaimani province, a member of his demining team has found one of potentially Read More …
Employee of Azerbaijan’s Mine Action Agency was hit by a mine in Azerbaijan’s Aghdam district, liberated from Armenian occupation, Trend reports. The mine explosion took place during demining of a new road, connecting the villages of Bash Garvand and Uzundara Read More …
Japan has donated $4 million to Somalia to support in countering improvised explosive devices that have become commonly deployed weapons by extremist groups in recent years. According to a statement from the Japanese embassy in Kenya, the donation will be Read More …
Over 1 500 people have been killed or maimed by landmines while more than 120 000 livestock have also perished since independence in 1980. As a result, a local Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) organisation has urged the government to compile Read More …
The European Union’s ambassador to Iraq on Friday said the bloc would allocate an additional $8 million (€6.7 million) for the detection and destruction of explosives left by ISIS. Martin Huth said in a tweet that the money would be Read More …
Russian peacekeepers defused more than 300 explosive objects found on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. “Today, at one of the destruction sites, the group is destroying explosive objects. To date, more than forty Read More …
On the wide, flat plain of the Sinjar district of northern Iraq, Naif Khalaf Qassim lets his dog, an eight-year-old Belgian shepherd, range across the dry earth on a 30-metre leash until Branco stops and sits, tail wagging, looking towards Read More …
A rat named in memory of a landmine clearance expert and former British soldier is continuing his work 25 years after his murder. The landmine-sniffing rat Howes has just started her new job clearing the deadly legacy of conflict in Read More …
Azerbaijan’s Mine Action Agency has seized and defused 208 mines and unexploded ordnance on territories liberated from the Armenian occupation in 2020. In a report on demining operations carried out in the liberated lands from July 5 to 10, the Read More …
The Zimbabwean government on Tuesday bemoaned the lack of adequate funding from donors and international partners to support its demining efforts. Zimbabwe is one of the most densely mined countries in the world. While the country’s land mine clearance started Read More …
The Minister of State for Displaced People’s Affairs and Human Rights, Ahmed Abu Khuzam, received the Director-General of the Libyan Center for Mine Action and Remnants of War, Colonel Mohammed Al-Torjuman. The meeting discussed the center’s work mechanism and the Read More …
In 2005 the U.N. instituted the first International Landmine Awareness Day, calling for joint action by states to encourage demining activities in countries where landmines pose a serious threat to the safety, health and life of civilian populations. Even though Read More …
The United States welcomes the July 3 release by Azerbaijan of 15 Armenian detainees and their return to Armenia. We also welcome Armenia’s decision to share information with Azerbaijan that will facilitate humanitarian demining. These actions follow Azerbaijan’s June 12 Read More …
Ly Thuch, Senior Minister and First vice-president of Cambodia Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority, said that donor countries, development partners and stakeholders need to continue to work together on mine action and be committed to supporting each other to Read More …
The Republic of Korea through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has provided $9.2 million for mine clearance activities in Cambodia for 2020-2025. The financial support was highlighted by Ms Ji Yea Kyung, Assistant Country Director of KOICA Cambodia Office, Read More …
Engineering and sapper units of humanitarian demining of the Russian peacekeeping contingent continue to clear the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh from the danger of mines and explosive objects, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. Currently, Russian servicemen are carrying out work to Read More …
Laos will continue to work with all development partners including the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to improve the quality of life of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) victims. This was the message at a meeting led by Catherine Phuong, a representative Read More …