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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 …
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) continues the search for cluster bombs and research information to speed up unexploded ordnance clearance. CMAA has also appealed to donor countries and partners to continue support 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 Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) removed a 120mm Japanese projectile bomb at Bulogaly village, Ata’a district in North Malaita on 24 July 2021. Officer-in-charge (OIC) EOD Inspector Clifford Tunuki says, “EOD have 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 …
The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) claimed that an 11-year-old boy was recently injured when he dropped an RPG when he was herding cattle. The incident happened in Samrong commune, Phnom Kravanh district, Pursat province. The RPGs are relics of 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 …
An employee of the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action (ANAMA) was hit by an anti-personnel mine blast on July 27. The incident occurred in Mehdili village of Jabrayil region that was liberated from the Armenian occupation in last year’s 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 live World War Two bomb unearthed by builders on a housing development has been destroyed in a controlled explosion. The 500lb (227kg) device was found on the new-build estate in Goole, East Yorkshire, on Thursday. Eight homes were evacuated Read More …
The Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad was called to New Bedford on Thursday after a scallop boat found an ordnance. Representatives of the U.S. Navy and Massachusetts Department of Fire Services responded to the area where the ordnance was brought Read More …
China has provided a grant of $2.5 million to support the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) ordnance clearance operations. The funds will cover operations for the 12 months of 2022, according to CMAC director general Heng Ratana. Ratana thanked Prime 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 …
Human Rights Watch documented the use of two types of ground-launched cluster munitions in multiple locations in Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh during the armed conflict that began on September 27 and concluded on November 10 with a ceasefire. Both Armenian and Read More …
A groundskeeper at the Fort Rodd Hill National Historic site in Colwood got more than they bargained for when they unearthed an unexploded mortar. The Parks Canada worker was clearing invasive plants from an unused part of the site when 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 …
On July 12, 2021, experts from the 4th Mine Action Center (CMAC) found another 80 unexploded ordnances – after finding 325 on July 10 – at a high school in Siem Reap. The bombs are all live and have a Read More …