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CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti – Kentucky National Guard engineers with the 577th Sapper Company and 123rd Airlift Wing traveled more than 15,000 miles to train with the Djiboutian military demining company as part of the State Partnership Program (SPP) Aug.19–29. For Read More …
Azerbaijan continues mine clearance operations in Aghdam city liberated from Armenia’s occupation in the last year’s 44-day war, an official of the Aghdam region executive office has said. The clearing of mines and unexploded ordnances continues on the territory of Read More …
The present report, covering the period from August 2019 to July 2021, is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 74/80 on assistance in mine action. The report covers the implementation of the Strategy of the United Nations on Mine Action Read More …
The National Authority for Preah Vihear (NAPV) will cooperate with the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) to begin a joint operation to clear mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in two areas located in the Koh Ker temple complex in Preah Read More …
The largest landmine clearing charity in Afghanistan has struck an agreement with the Taliban to resume its work clearing unexploded munitions. The Halo Trust, which has its headquarters in Scotland, evacuated all its foreign staff last month. It said at Read More …
Azerbaijan’s Mine Action Agency has said that in August it defused 1,028 mines and munitions on territories liberated from Armenia’s occupation in the last year’s war. Some 455 anti-personnel and 70 anti-tank mines, as well as 503 unexploded munitions were Read More …
The UK has provided half a million pounds to help clear landmines in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, to make the area safe, prevent injuries and save lives. the UK has contributed £500,000 to recovery efforts and to help de-mine one of Read More …
Azerbaijan has fully completed the first stage of demining the Fuzuli-Jabrayil road, Mine Action Agency Supervisor of Azerbaijan Natig Asadov has said. “We are now in Garghabazari village in Fuzuli region. Here we are clearing from mines the road from Read More …
Demining agency has cleared a total of 64,562,539 square metres of landmines and explosive remnants of war (UXOs) contaminated land for the seven months of this year, an official said. From January to July, Cambodian Mine Action Center’s demining and Read More …
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 …
Senior Officials of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) highlighted yesterday that from 2018 to 2020, around 421 square kilometres of contaminated land containing landmines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) was cleared, benefitting around 2 million Read More …
Australia and the Solomon Islands are deepening cooperation on explosive ordnance disposal, with a $15 million package of infrastructure works, equipment and training announced in Honiara. The package builds on Defence’s longstanding cooperation with the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force Read More …
A grenade was found in front of a local politician’s home in the central province Prachin Buri, east of Bangkok. The chief of the Kham Tanot Administrative Organization, 53 year old Suchart Dejsupha, said he was in a meeting when Read More …
As the dust begins to settle on war-torn Afghanistan, a major question is what will happen to the landmines and other ordinance littering its landscape? More than 40 years of war have left the Afghan landscape littered with landmines as 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 …
A Jones County recycling plant was locked down Friday as federal agents destroyed an “explosive device” found days after an employee lost his life in the Aug. 4 explosion. According to Jones County Sheriff Joe Berlin, A United States Army Read More …
An aerial bomb, believed to be from World War 2, was found in an oil palm plantation in Felda Triang 1, Bera on Monday by a settler. District police chief, DSP Mansor Samsudin, said the settler reported it to police Read More …