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The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) is setting out to clear unexploded ordnances (UXO) in approximately 500 hectares across three river locations next year. Director General Heng Ratana said yesterday that CMAC has designated the three locations on the Tonle Read More …
On Wednesday, the General Directorate for Mine Affairs in Duhok province announced the removal and detonation of over 500 landmines. The Directorate’s Media Official, Reger Besfki, told Shafaq News that a mine and ordnance removal team successfully conducted an operation in Read More …
The Somali Explosives Management Authority (SEMA) on Monday concluded a training program aimed at tackling the threat of landmines and explosive remnants of war. Funded by the Chinese Embassy in Somalia, the initiative trained 81 participants from federal member states, Read More …
On Monday, the Norwegian government announced a new grant of about $240 million to support Ukraine’s navy in its fight against Russian forces in the Black Sea. The grant includes financing for the joint Norwegian/British Maritime Capability Coalition, a capacity-building Read More …
An unexploded American bomb weighing around 250 kilograms was detonated and removed from a building demolition site in central Nagoya on Sunday morning. The Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF) began removing the fuses from the bomb at approximately 10 a.m. While Read More …
Police have confirmed the device pulled from a city river over the weekend was an explosive. People were warned to avoid the Bishop Bridge area of Norwich on Sunday after a teenage boy pulled a suspected bomb from the River Read More …
The Directorate of Mine Action Coordination says that since the beginning of 2024, 137 people have been killed and 330 others injured as a result of unexploded ordnance detonations. Nooruddin Rustamkhil, the head of this directorate, told TOLOnews that during Read More …
The extent of unexploded ordnance littering Syria will be “massive” and poses a particular threat to children returning to the country, a landmine-clearing leader has warned. Since the fall of the Assad regime last weekend, the Halo Trust has seen Read More …
During the Vietnam War, the United States dropped more than 8 million tons of bombs and sprayed 74 million liters of Agent Orange and other herbicides in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Nearly 50 years after the war’s end, the deadly Read More …
The devastating legacy of armed conflict – often marked by the indiscriminate use of landmines, improvised explosive devices and other explosive ordnance – poses a significant humanitarian challenge. Innovation in mine action With over 25 years of experience, UNOPS has Read More …
Explosives technicians from Ukraine’s National Police have neutralized an unexploded warhead from a Russian Kh-101 missile in the southwestern Chernivtsi region. Law enforcement officers discovered the unexploded warhead of the missile outside a populated area in the Dnistrovskyi district. Bomb Read More …
Despite the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, most of the Lebanese people displaced over the past three months have already started returning to their homes. However, for most, it is not a happy homecoming. According to the World Bank, Read More …
Conflicts across the globe illustrate the devastating humanitarian consequences when urban areas become theatres of war. The use of explosive weapons in these environments carries numerous implications for civilians, including children. What is being done at the international level, and Read More …
More than one thousand days into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, landmine and explosive remnants of war (ERW) contamination on Ukrainian farmland remains a complex and pervasive challenge for Ukraine’s farmers and government, its allies, and the global mine action Read More …
A piece of unexploded ordnance that led to buildings along a seafront being evacuated has been safely removed. Cordons were put in place in the Pier Road area of in Southsea after police were called at 09:37 GMT. A spokesperson Read More …
Japanese divers working magnetic surveys for the government at two sites on Okinawa discovered 20 pieces of unexploded ordnance believed to be left over from World War II. Most recently, divers found a 5-inch shell on Nov. 26 in 52-foot Read More …
Engineered microbes can sense target chemicals and respond with programmed actions, using cell sensors to detect specific chemicals and genetic circuits to convert regulatory signals into observable outcomes1,2,3. Microbial sensors have the potential to carry out autonomous, long-term environmental monitoring Read More …
This guide is intended to advance the clearance of landmines from border areas when there is political will to do so. More specifically, it is meant inform affected states, as well as donor states, of some of the various approaches Read More …
Bomb disposal experts from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) have discovered wreckage from a Russian Kh-55 cruise missile in one of Kyiv’s districts. Emergency workers note that although wreckage did not pose a direct threat to the population, it could Read More …
CFB BORDEN — The Canadian Forces Ammunition Depot (CFAD) Angus will be hosting Exercise Cunning Pine, an annual explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) training exercise at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Borden from Nov. 26 to Nov. 28, 2024. This important training Read More …