Tag: landmine
SA takes part in Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention in Cambodia
South Africa, currently serving as Vice-President, is participating in the Fifth Review Conference of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production,...
Mine Action Day to be marked worldwide
Tomorrow (4 April) is the United Nations (UN) accredited International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action with nine events globally –...
Seven poll workers killed by landmine as Niger votes in presidential...
Seven poll workers were killed during Niger’s presidential vote on Sunday when their vehicle struck a landmine, an election official said, marring a day...
Landmine death toll rises
The global casualty toll from landmines doubled in 2018 from a 2013 low due to conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria and Mali and increased use...
Humanitarian Mine Action increases demining capacity in Morocco
U.S. Marines and Sailors with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa 19.2, Marine Forces Europe and Africa, participated in Humanitarian Mine Action activity...
Mines still claim legs and lives in Libya’s Benghazi, months after...
As military deminers warily picked their way through streets wrecked by war in Benghazi, a loud blast rang out - a familiar...
Landmine kills eight in Kenya
Four police officers and four civilians were killed when their truck hit a landmine on a road near Kenya's border with Somalia,...
Three Kenyan police killed in landmine attack claimed by al Shabaab
Three police officers were killed in eastern Kenya on Wednesday when their vehicle hit a landmine, a senior official said, in an...
Afghan brothers who had ‘minefield as playground’ develop drone to clear...
As young boys growing up on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, Mahmud Hassani and his brother Massoud saw firsthand the damage...
Boko Haram landmine kills 4 Chadian soldiers
A landmine planted by Islamist group Boko Haram killed four Chadian soldiers on patrol near Chad's border with Niger on Saturday, two...
Two Tunisians killed in landmine blast near Algerian border
Two Tunisian civilians were killed and one other injured on Monday by a landmine planted by jihadist groups in a mountainous region...
Landmine kills UN peacekeeper in Mali
A UN peacekeeper was killed in Mali by a landmine on Tuesday, underlining persistent insecurity in the country four days after Islamist...
Two Mali soldiers killed, others injured in landmine explosion
Two Malian soldiers were killed and others were wounded on Sunday when their vehicle struck a landmine in the centre of the...
One Tunisian soldier killed, two wounded in landmine blast
One Tunisian soldier was killed and two wounded in a landmine blast late on Sunday in a central region bordering Algeria where...
Landmine casualties fell by 25 percent over last year to 15-year...
Fewer people were killed or wounded by landmines over the past year than at any time since record-keeping began in 1999, and...
Landmine kills four U.N. soldiers, wounds 15 in northern Mali
Four United Nations soldiers were killed on Tuesday and another 15 were wounded when the convoy they were traveling in struck a...
Four Tunisian soldiers killed in landmine blast
Four Tunisian soldiers have been killed in a landmine blast during an operation against Islamist militants in the north of the country,...
Tunisian soldier killed in landmine explosion near Algerian border
A Tunisian soldier was killed and five wounded on Friday in a landmine explosion near the Algerian border where security forces have...
Two humanitarian workers injured in landmine explosion in Mali
Two employees of humanitarian group Medecins du Monde's Belgian chapter were seriously injured on Wednesday when the vehicle they were travelling in...
Tunisian militant landmine blast kills soldier
A Tunisian soldier was killed and another wounded in a landmine explosion near the Algerian border where security forces are pursuing Islamist...
Libyan soldier killed by mine, 16 people wounded in jail battle:...
A soldier was killed by a mine in the Libyan city of Benghazi and 16 people were wounded in clashes at a...
Angola destroyed tens of thousands of explosive devices in 2012
More than 30 000 explosive devices, among them grenades, landmines, anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, were destroyed during de-mining operations in four provinces...
Mechem assists United Nations in African mineclearing
South African mine clearing company Mechem has 212 personnel deployed across Africa in support of United Nations and African Union peacekeeping operations,...
Re-sowing of landmines an issue in Sudan
The re-sowing of landmines in areas cleared by deminers is merging as a problem in the borderlands between north and south Sudan....
AU base, mosque targeted in Somali capital
A landmine killed one person and wounded four yesterday in a rare attack on a mosque in an insurgent stronghold of the...
Landmine kills 14, Somali parliament fails to meet
A landmine blast in the Somali capital Mogadishu killed eight people, and mortar rounds fired by insurgents at the city airport as...
